Lucas Shepherd

Lucas Schäfer, 2017

Lucas Shepherd (* 15. August 1994 in Marburg ) is a German lightweight - rowers .

At the U23 World Championships in 2014, Schäfer took fourth place in the lightweight four without a helmsman , and in 2015 he won the silver medal together with Felix Brummel, Sven Ditzel and Alexander Kevin Diedrich. In 2016, Schäfer together with Jonathan Koch , Tobias Franzmann and Lars Wichert won the bronze medal at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel behind the Swiss and the British. Shortly afterwards, the lightweight foursome qualified in Lucerne to take part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . Three months later, the four finished ninth at the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro .

The 1.87 m tall Lucas Schäfer started rowing in Marburg, he starts for rowing and sport Steinmühle Marburg e. V. and studies ecotrophology at the Justus Liebig University in Giessen . Until the end of 2010 he rowed for the Marburg rowing club from 1911 , from summer 2010 also at the rowing club Germania Düsseldorf with the local trainer Martin Strohmenger. Since 2013 he started as a former student of the Steinmühle school home for his current club.

successes

• 2014: 4th place U23 world championships in lightweight foursome without
• 2015: 2nd place U23 world championships in lightweight foursome without
• 2016: 3rd place European championships in lightweight foursome without
• 2016: 2nd place in the Olympic post-qualification regatta in the lightweight foursome without
• 2016: 9th place in the Olympic rowing regatta in the lightweight four-man without
• 2017: 5th place in the European championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2017: 6th place world championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2019: 6th place European championships in lightweight quadruple sculls
• 2019: 14th place world championships in the lightweight single

Web links

Commons : Lucas Schäfer  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

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