Thomas Lange is a German rower who won two gold and one bronze Olympic medals in the single sculls. Lange, along with Pertti Karppinen, Peter-Michael Kolbe and Vyacheslav Ivanov, is the only rower to win medals in the single sculls in three different Olympics. His first international appearance was at the 1980 Junior World Rowing Championships, where he won the gold medal in the double sculls. He then went on to win the singles title in the next two Junior World Championships. He first competed at the senior level in 1983, and at the age of 19, won the double sculls at the World Rowing Championships with Uwe Heppner, which they repeated in 1985. 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. He recovered by 1987 and won his first World Championship in the single sculls besting Pertti Karppinen and Peter-Michael Kolbe who between then had won 10 of the previous 12 World and Olympic titles. Lange repeated this feat by winning the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul. 

February 27th, 1964 in Eisleben (Age 60)