Lauritz Schoof

Lauritz Schoof
	; Lauritz Schoof, third from the left
Full name	Lauritz Schoof
nation	Germany
birthday	October 7, 1990
place of birth	Rendsburg , Germany
size	195 cm
Weight	94 kg
Career
discipline	Rowing / Skull , belt
society	Rendsburg rowing club
Trainer	Marcus Schwarzrock
status	active
Medal table
Olympic games
World championships
European championships
U23 world championships
Junior World Championships
	Last change: August 11, 2016

Lauritz Schoof (born October 7, 1990 in Rendsburg ) is a German rower . In 2012 and 2016 he won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in quadruples, as well as the 2013 European Championship and the 2015 World Championship in the same boat class.

Career

Schoof was second in the four without a helmsman at the 2007 Junior World Championships . At the Junior World Championships in 2008 he won the double scull with Martin Menger . In 2009 Schoof won the U23 world championships in singles .

In 2010 the German double scull entered the new line-up with Stephan Krüger , Tim Grohmann , Lauritz Schoof and Mathias Rocher and achieved second place at the World Cup regatta in Munich and also second place in Lucerne with Hans Gruhne for Krüger. With Gruhne on strike, the German quadruple finished fourth at the European Rowing Championships 2010 and the 2010 World Rowing Championships .

In 2011 the German double four won the World Cup opener in Munich with Tim Grohmann, Philipp Wende , Karl Schulze and Lauritz Schoof, after they had also won the German championship title in this line-up. In the line-up of Schulze, Wende, Schoof and Grohmann, the boat took second place at the World Cup in Hamburg and won in Lucerne. At the World Championships in Bled , the double scull also finished second behind the Australian boat. At the Olympic Games in 2012, the German double scull won the gold medal with Schoof in London.

In the new Olympic cycle, too, the German double scull was filled with constant minor changes from the core of the Olympic team. Schoof was able to take the European Championship title in Seville and second place at the World Championships in Chungju behind the Croatian team in 2013 . After a season without international regattas in 2014, Schoof returned to the European Rowing Championship 2015 in the double fours, where the team only finished sixth due to injury. At the World Championships in Aiguebelette , the cast of Karl Schulze, Philipp Wende, Lauritz Schoof and Hans Gruhne finally won the gold medal. The following year, the boat also won the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

Lauritz Schoof rows for the Rendsburg rowing club .

successes

2011: Silver medal at the World Championships in Bled in double fours
2012: Gold medal in the double sculls at the Summer Olympics
2013: Gold medal at the European Rowing Championships , Seville , in quadruples
2013: Silver medal at the World Rowing Championships , Chungju in quadruples
2015: Gold medal at the World Rowing Championships , Aiguebelette in quadruples
2016: Gold medal in double fours at the Summer Olympics

Awards

2012, 2016: Schleswig-Holstein's Sportsman of the Year
2012: Sports badge from the state of Schleswig-Holstein
2012, 2016: Silver bay leaf
2019: Honorary member of the rowing association Schleswig-Holstein

Web links

Lauritz Schoof at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Lauritz Schoof in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
German champions in double fours

Individual evidence

↑ German double foursome wins gold. In: Spiegel Online. August 3, 2012, accessed August 3, 2012 .
↑ The state's sports badge for the rower Lauritz Schoof. In: www.schleswig-holstein.de. July 18, 2012, accessed February 6, 2016 .
^ Double Olympic champion Lauritz Schoof now honorary member. In: www.rish.de. Rowing Association Schleswig-Holstein, March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019 .

personal data
SURNAME	Schoof, Lauritz
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rower
DATE OF BIRTH	October 7, 1990
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rendsburg

[1] German double foursome wins gold. In: Spiegel Online. August 3, 2012, accessed August 3, 2012 .

[2] The state's sports badge for the rower Lauritz Schoof. In: www.schleswig-holstein.de. July 18, 2012, accessed February 6, 2016 .

[3] Double Olympic champion Lauritz Schoof now honorary member. In: www.rish.de. Rowing Association Schleswig-Holstein, March 18, 2019, accessed on March 18, 2019 .