Felix Drahotta

Felix Drahotta
Full name	Felix Drahotta
nation	Germany
birthday	January 1, 1989
place of birth	Bad Doberan ,  GDR
size	199 cm
Weight	99 kg
job	Sports soldier , Bundeswehr
Career
discipline	Rowing / belt
society	Rostock rowing club from 1885 RTHC Bayer Leverkusen
Trainer	Ulf Kramer
National squad	since 2007
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games 0 × 1 × 0 × World Rowing Championship 0 × 3 × 0 × Rowing championships 4 × 0 × 0 × Junior World Championship 1 × 0 × 0 ×
Olympic games silver 2016 in Rio de Janeiro Eighth  World championships silver 2013 in Chungju Eighth silver 2014 in Amsterdam Eighth silver 2015 in Aiguebelette Eighth  European championships gold 2013 in Seville Eighth gold 2014 in Belgrade Eighth gold 2015 in Poznan Eighth gold 2016 in Brandenburg Eighth  Junior World Championships gold 2007 in Beijing Eighth
Last change: August 13, 2016

Felix Drahotta (born January 1, 1989 in Bad Doberan ) is a German rower .

Drahotta starts for the Rostock rowing club from 1885 . In February 2007 Drahotta won the unofficial rowing gymnastics world championships in Boston with a time of 5: 59.7 minutes in the junior class. In the summer of 2007 Drahotta was with the German eighth junior world champion at the junior world championships . With a fifth place at the Rowing World Cup in Poznan in June 2008, he qualified together with Tom Lehmann in two without a helmsman for the 2008 Olympic Games in Beijing . There the two took fourth place in the Olympic regatta.

Felix Drahotta (left) with Richard Schmidt (2014)

In the Olympic cycle before the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Drahotta was only active internationally in the two-man without a helmsman. With Nils Menke he finished seventh at the 2009 World Championships , but then failed to qualify for the World Championships in New Zealand the following year. In the 2011 season he was nominated together with Maximilian Munski in two for the World Championships , where the duo took sixth place. In the Olympic season, Drahotta and his partner Anton Braun were the fastest boat in the team at the DRV small boat inspection in Duisburg, and later both were nominated in this combination for the Olympic Games in London . The German team finished 7th in the Olympic rowing regatta.

After the games in London, Drahotta was able to firmly establish himself in the squad of the Germany eight . At the European Championships in 2013 he won his first international title in the adult class with the gold medal in the German eighth, and later the team won the silver medal behind the United Kingdom with him at the 2013 World Rowing Championships . Drahotta was able to repeat both successes as a member of the Germany eight in both 2014 and 2015 at both European and World Cup. At the European Championships in 2014 , Drahotta led the eighth as a batsman . In 2016, Germany won the European Championships ahead of the Russians and the British, and the Dutch eighth won the World Cup twice. In the final of the 2016 Olympic Games , the finish line was like at the World Championships 2013 to 2015, behind the British, the rowers of the Germany eight received the silver medal.

For his sporting achievements Drahotta was awarded the Silver Laurel Leaf by Federal President Gauck on November 1, 2016 .

Felix Drahotta is 1.99 m tall and weighs 99 kg.

International success

• 2007: 1st place Ergometer World Championships (Juniors)
• 2007: 1st place in the Junior World Championships in eighth place
• 2008: 4th place at the Olympic Games in two without a helmsman
• 2009: 7th place in the two-man championship without a helmsman
• 2011: 6th place in the two-man championship without a helmsman
• 2012: 7th place at the Olympic Games in two without a helmsman
• 2013: 1st place European Championships in eighth place
• 2013: 2nd place World Championships in eighth place
• 2014: 1st place European Championships in eighth place
• 2014: 2nd place World Championships in eighth place
• 2015: 1st place European Championships in eighth place
• 2015: 2nd place world championships in eighth place
• 2016: 1st place European Championships in eighth place
• 2016: 2nd place Olympic Games in eighth place

Web links

• Felix Drahotta at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Felix Drahotta in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Report of the state sports association. Retrieved July 23, 2008 . 
2. ↑ Carsten Oberhagemann: Drahotta / Braun win the individual time trial on the Wedau. (No longer available online.) Germany-Achter, March 26, 2012, archived from the original on March 29, 2012 ; Retrieved April 12, 2015 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ Awarding of the silver bay leaf. In: www.bundespraesident.de. Office of the Federal President , November 1, 2016, accessed December 30, 2016 .