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Lange and Heppner would have been the favorites for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but East Germany chose to boycott the games.
Lange and Heppner would have been the favorites for the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, but East Germany chose to boycott the games.
In 1986, Lange changed to the single sculls. However, illness prevented him from competing that year. Lange repeated this feat by winning the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul.
By that time East Germany was disintegrating and Lange began his studies as a medical doctor.
Foreign Lange, this was his fifth straight (non-consecutive) World Championship or Olympic victory in the single sculls. Lange would go on to take third at the 1993 World championships, take 1994 off to concentrate on his medical studies, finish out of the running in the 1995 World Championships, and come back to claim a bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics behind Switzerland"s Xeno Müller and Canada"s Derek Porter.
Currently Lange works a medical doctor in Ratzeburg.
His father was a member of the Stasi and committed suicide.