Jörg Lehnigk

Jörg Lehnigk (born January 8, 1980 in Greifswald ) is a former German rower .

career

Lehnigk was a member of the national team for the first time in 2000, at the Nations Cup , the unofficial U23 World Championships, he won silver in the lightweight single. In the same year he was a substitute rower for the lightweight double sculls of Ingo Euler and Bernhard Rühling at the Olympic Games in Sydney . In 2001 he became U23 world champion in the lightweight double scull with Jens Wittwer , and in 2002 he also succeeded in the lightweight single.

From 2001 to 2003 Lehnigk was a member of the German lightweight double foursome, which won bronze at the 2003 World Championships in Milan . For the Olympic year 2004 Lehnigk switched to oars and qualified in the lightweight two-man without a helmsman for the world championships in the non-Olympic boat classes. Together with Joachim Drews , he finished sixth.

From 2005 Lehnigk rowed the lightweight double scull for Germany with Manuel Brehmer . In 2005 and 2006 they reached the World Cup finals, but could only reach sixth place there. In the spring of 2007, Lehnigk was German champion in the lightweight singles, at the World Championships he was back in double sculls with Bremer and reached eighth place, which meant that Germany was qualified for the Olympic Games in this boat class.

At the German Small Boat Championships in 2008 he missed a medal, so that the runner-up Jonathan Koch moved into the double scull with Brehmer. Lehnigk was nominated as a lightweight substitute rower for the Olympic Games and previously represented Germany in the lightweight single at the World Championships , where he won the B final and finished seventh.

Due to a series of sick leave, Lehnigk had an unusual assignment at the Olympic Games: In the German four without a helmsman , two rowers were sick before the semi-finals. This could initially be compensated by the deployment of the two scheduled replacement rowers Richard Schmidt and Marco Neumann , the boat made it to the final. Before the final, however, Neumann also fell ill, so that a rower had to move up from another boat in order to be able to contest the race. Since the Germany eight did not qualify for the final, the national coaches decided to put eight rower Jochen Urban in the four and instead use Lehnigk for the B final in eight. He took over the position of bowman, but the German boat was defeated by the Chinese team and took last place.

Lehnigk ended his career after the Olympic Games.

International success

• 2000: 2nd place U23 world championships in lightweight single
• 2001: 1st place U23 world championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2001: 6th place world championships in lightweight quadruple sculls
• 2002: 1st place U23 world championships in the lightweight single
• 2002: 5th place world championships in lightweight quadruple sculls
• 2003: 3rd place in the lightweight quadruple championship
• 2004: 6th place in the lightweight two-man championship without a helmsman
• 2005: 6th place world championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2006: 6th place world championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2007: 8th place world championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2008: 7th place in the world championships in the lightweight single
• 2008: 8th place Olympic Games in eighth place

Web links

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