Germany eighth
As Germany Roller (also Germany aft ), the eight men of the German rowing designated national team. The eighth is traditionally considered the "flagship" of the German Rowing Association .
The term "Germany eight" was used from around 1959 for the team supervised by rowing trainer Karl Adam in Ratzeburg , after the West German men's eight surprisingly won the European championship in Mâcon . At the Olympic Games in 1960 , the "Ratzeburger Eight" ended the winning streak of the USA, which had won the gold medal eight times in a row from 1920. It was also the first time that a boat stayed under 6 minutes in the 2000 meter Olympic distance.
The Germany eighth was particularly successful in the 1960s under Karl Adam and between 1988 and 1996 and since 2009 under Ralf Holtmeyer . The GDR team of eight , which historically was not referred to as the "Germany eight", was generally stronger than the West German team between 1970 and 1987.
The Germany eight was voted Team of the Year in Germany seven times . Including the GDR successes, six Olympic gold medals have been won in 1960, 1968, 1976 (GDR), 1980 (GDR), 1988 and 2012. The world championship title was won 18 times by a German eighth team, and 17 times at the European Championship gold (as of 2018).
history
Two Olympic victories in the 1960s
The success story of the Germany eight began in 1959 when it won the European Championship. In the following year, the boat managed by Karl Adam won the 1960 Olympic Games in Rome by a clear margin. This was followed by four European and two world championship titles, with the European championship titles in 1963, 1965 and 1967 having the character of a world championship because they u. a. against the USA and partly against Australia. In 1965, the Germany eight consisted of a racing community with a regular line-up from Ratzeburg and Lübeck. The team with Horst Meyer , Dirk Schreyer , Christian Prey , Klaus Behrens , Dagobert Thometschek , Jürgen Schröder , Hans-Jürgen Wallbrecht , Klaus Aeffke and Stm. Peter Niehusen not only won the European Championships in Duisburg a. a. against the Soviet Union and the USA, but also the Grand Challenge Cup of the Henley Royal Regatta , here with helmsman Berthold Mainka , against the 1964 Olympic champion from the Vesper Boat Club (USA) in the course record.
The Germany eight, newly formed in the following year by the new batsman Horst Meyer and Dirk Schreyer from rowers from a now nationwide racing community, won the eighth race of the Rowing World Championships in Bled in 1966 with the cast of Peter Kuhn , Lutz Ulbricht , Michael Schwan , Peter Hertel , Ulrich Luhn , Rüdiger Henning , Dirk Schreyer, Horst Meyer and Stm. Peter Niehusen . The European Championships in the eighth in 1967 in Vichy was u. a. Won against the Soviet Union and the USA in the changed team line-up with Roland Böse , Jörg Siebert , Egbert Hirschfelder , Wolfgang Hottenrott , Ulrich Luhn, Rüdiger Henning, Dirk Schreyer, Schlagmann Horst Meyer and Stm. Gunther Tiersch .
At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, the Germany eighth was inferior to the USA ( Vesper Boat Club ) and won the silver medal. At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City , with a weakened replacement by Niko Ott , Jörg Siebert, Egbert Hirschfelder, Wolfgang Hottenrott, Lutz Ulbricht, Rüdiger Henning, Dirk Schreyer, Schlagmann Horst Meyer and Stm. Gunther Tiersch, the gold medal was won again in a tight race after the bowman Roland Böse fell ill on the final day. That was the provisional high point of Germany's eighth finish, which at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich with helmsman Manfred Klein did not get beyond fifth place. With the Olympic gold medal in Mexico in 1968, the Olympic silver medal in Tokyo in 1964 and 6 world and European championship victories in 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966 and 1967 in eighth, batsman Horst Meyer is considered the most successful eighth rower internationally.
Successful 1980s and 1990s
Only under the new coach Ralf Holtmeyer was it possible to build on old successes. The 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul gave the newly formed team around batsman Bahne Rabe a gold medal that was not thought possible in the previous year . He was replaced in 1989 by Roland Baar , who won the world championships three times in a row with his team and won the bronze medal in Barcelona in 1992 . After this season, helmsman Manfred Klein left the team.
After World Cup titles in 1991, 1993 and 1995, Germany eighth won the Olympic silver medal in Atlanta in 1996 . Roland Baar ended his career with this success, in which he had won two Olympic medals and became world champion five times. In addition to him, rowers like Ansgar Wessling (Olympic gold 1988 and bronze 1992, world champion 1989 and 1991), Dirk Balster (world champion 1989, 1990 and 1991), Thorsten Streppelhoff (world champion 1991 and 1993, Olympic bronze 1992 and silver 1996), Martin Steffes-Mies (world champion 1989, 1990, 1991 and 1993) and Frank Richter (world champion 1990, 1993 and 1995, Olympic bronze 1992 and silver 1996) shaped the eight crews.
In 1998, the Germany eight with the new batsman Marc Weber was vice world champion, but then there was a performance low, and the boat could not qualify for the Olympic Games in Sydney .
Rebuilding, world championship title and Olympic rowing regatta 2008
After this failure, Dieter Grahn took over the coaching position, reorganized the entire team and was able to celebrate first successes with the newly formed eighth team around batsman Michael Ruhe . As early as 2001 the boat was awarded the bronze medal at the World Championships in Lucerne , the following year the team with helmsman Peter Thiede achieved second place at the World Championships in Seville .
After finishing fourth at the Olympic Games in Athens, Germany eighth under the new batsman Bernd Heidicker won the title again for the first time since 1995 at the 2006 World Championships in Eton . At the 2007 World Championships in Munich, the eighth secured the Olympic qualification by winning the silver medal and was placed as the best men's team of the otherwise disappointing German Rowing Association. After poor season performance in 2008, the successful coach Dieter Grahn was relieved of responsibility for the boat and the entire world championship team was replaced by a new team led by batsman Andreas Penkner . The previous assistant coach Christian Viedt acted as interim coach until the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing. This decision was heavily criticized. In fact, the Germany eight landed only in last place both in the pre-run and in the rebound and also lost the B-final against host China.
present
After the Olympic Games in 2008 Ralf Holtmeyer took over the Germany eighth as coach for the second time. He managed to get the flagship of the German Rowing Association back on track: The Germany eight remained unbeaten for five years until July 2013 and became world champion in 2009, 2010 and 2011. At the Olympic Games in London in 2012 he lived up to his role as a favorite and won the gold medal for the first time since 1988. In 2009 and 2010 Sebastian Schmidt was the batsman of the successful boat, from 2011 to 2013 it was Kristof Wilke .
In the Olympic cycle from 2013 onwards, a duel for the world's best developed between the Germany eight and the British big boat. The German team won the European Championship four times from 2013 to 2016, while the British won the eighth race of the world championships three times in a row from 2013 onwards, ahead of Germany’s eighth. In the final of the eighth competition at the 2016 Olympic Summer Games , the British also got the upper hand and won gold ahead of Germany's eighth in silver.
From the 2017 season, Uwe Bender took over as coach from Holtmeyer, who subsequently became the head national coach at the German Rowing Association . The Germany eight around batsman Hannes Ocik from Schwerin won the world and European championship titles in 2017 and 2018.
Placements
Notes: The participations of the Germany eight at the European Rowing Championships up to and including 1958 are incompletely known. There is also no data available on possible participation in the 1970 World Rowing Championships . The results of the men's eighth in the GDR are not included in this list.
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At the time of Karl Adam, the Germany eight trained at the rowing academy in Ratzeburg , where Adam worked as a teacher at the time. Until 1965, the eighth was largely manned by rowers from Ratzeburg and Lübeck, after which more and more rowers from West German federal territory moved into the team, which from then on was formed by a racing community . The successful series of the eight in the 1960s is still closely linked to the Ratzeburg location and the rowing club located there.
Since the second successful series of the eight from the mid-1980s under Ralf Holtmeyer , the Germany eight has been training at the Federal Rowing Center in Dortmund, where the strongest west German rowers trained in the so-called "Ruhrvierer". To this day, the rowers of the Germany eight train in Dortmund, where the teams formed from the same squad are stationed in the four without a helmsman and in the two without a helmsman .
Awards
The Germany eight was voted Team of the Year seven times : 1959, 1960, 1962 ( Ratzeburger Ruderclub ), 1968, 1988, 1989 and 2012. Only the men's national football team was elected more frequently than the Germany eight . In the years 2009 to 2011, 2014, 2015 and 2017 to 2019, the German eight was also named team of the year by North Rhine-Westphalia ("Felix") eight times .
marketing
The Deutschland-Achter is marketed by Dortmund-based Deutschland-Achter GmbH , which also has trademark and trademark rights to the name Deutschland-Achter . The relationship between the marketing agency and the German Rowing Association has been put on a contractual basis over time. The association then receives a percentage fee. At Deutschland-Achter GmbH, the athletes decide on the distribution of the remaining income through a specialist advisory board chosen by them.
WILO SE from Dortmund has been the main sponsor since October 2010 . The main financier of the German national rowing team and thus also of the Germany eight is the Federal Ministry of the Interior through the German Rowing Association.
Team for the 2019 season
Germany eighth
- Martin Sauer (helmsman)
- Hannes Ocik (batsman)
- Richard Schmidt
- Painted Jakschik
- Jakob Schneider
- Torben Johannesen
- Christopher Reinhardt
- Laurits Follert
- Johannes Weißenfeld (bow man)
Coaching team
- Uwe Bender (trainer)
- Tim Schönberg (trainer)
- Peter Thiede (trainer)
- Christian Viedt (Coach U23)
literature
- Hans Lenk : Ratzeburger Goldwasser - from Lago Albano to Lambarene. A philosophizing Olympic champion remembers . Projekverlag, Bochum / Freiburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-89733-290-4 .
Individual evidence
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- ↑ Evi Simeoni: Germany eighth: The miracle of Rome . In: FAZ.NET , September 7, 2010. ISSN 0174-4909 . Retrieved August 10, 2012.
- ↑ Result of the 1960 Olympics (men). Retrieved March 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Dag Danzglock: Eighth will be filled. German Rowing Association, June 4, 2008, accessed on January 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Germany eighth defeated. In: sueddeutsche.de. July 14, 2013, accessed January 2, 2016 .
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- ^ Rowing at the 1908 London Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights. Sports-Reference LLC, accessed January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e Wilfried Hoffmann: Olympic rowing regattas since 1896: German medal successes - gold, silver and bronze. Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p Wilfried Hoffmann: European Rowing Championships since 1913: German medal successes - gold, silver and bronze. Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on January 3, 2015 .
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- ^ Rowing at the 1932 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights. Sports-Reference LLC, accessed January 3, 2015 .
- ^ Rowing at the 1952 Helsinki Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights. Sports-Reference LLC, accessed January 3, 2015 .
- ^ Rowing at the 1956 Melbourne Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights. Sports-Reference LLC, accessed January 3, 2015 .
- ^ A b Wilfried Hoffmann: Rowing World Championships since 1962: German medal successes - gold, silver and bronze. Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ 1971 European Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1972 Olympic Games: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1973 European Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1974 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1975 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1976 Olympic Games: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1977 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ^ 1978 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1979 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1981 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1982 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. (No longer available online.) World Rowing Association, archived from the original on October 15, 2014 ; accessed on January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ 1983 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ^ Rowing at the 1984 Los Angeles Summer Games: Men's Coxed Eights. Sports-Reference LLC, accessed January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Rowing: bathe the leaf. Der SPIEGEL, accessed on January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ 1986 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 1987 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v w x Crews of the Germany eighth since 1988. (No longer available online.) Germany eighth, archived from the original on 3. November 2009 ; Retrieved January 3, 2015 .
- ↑ 2013 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 2014 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Federation, accessed on January 3, 2015 (English).
- ↑ 2015 World Rowing Championships: (M8 +) Men's Eight - Final. World Rowing Association, accessed on September 6, 2015 .
- ↑ Entry in the trademark register. German Patent and Trademark Office, accessed on January 2, 2016 .
- ↑ Jürgen Bröker: The “Deutschland-Achter” brand shines. Handelsblatt , June 14, 2013, accessed on August 29, 2014 .
