Rantasa, Walter#

Rantasa, Walter, b. Vienna, Feb. 14, 1966, rower and sport manager. World champion in lightweight double sculls with C. Schmoelzer in Bled in 1989, silver medal winner at the world championships in Vienna in 1991 and in Montreal in 1992; from 1993 competed in the lightweight men´s fours with Schmoelzer, Wolfgang Sigl and Gernot Faderbauer; world champion in 1993 in Roudnice, 1994 in Indianapolis and 1995 in Tampere. Since 2001 sport director of the Austrian Rowing Association.