His first international appearance was at the 1980
World Rowing Junior Championships, where he won the gold medal in the double sculls (2x). He then went on to win the singles title in the next two Junior World Championships. He took 1994 off to concentrate on his medical studies before finishing 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. In 1997, Lange was awarded the
Thomas Keller Medal for outstanding career in rowing. Currently Lange works a medical doctor in
Ratzeburg. ==References==