Lydia Weber

Lydia Weber (born March 29, 1990 in Dresden ) is a German canoeist .

Weber, who attends a physiotherapy vocational school, has been actively involved in canoe racing since 2000 . For 9 years she went kayaking and took u. a. participated in the Olympic Hope Games 2006. After the World Canoeing Federation (ICF) decided in 2009 to include Canadian canoe races for women in the program of the Canoeing World Championships , she switched to this boat class. Your trainer is the former Canadian World Champion Alexander Schuck . In her young Canadian career, she has already achieved numerous successes. B. East German Champion 2010. In July 2010 she won the World Cup qualification in the women's single Canoe for the 2010 World Championships in Poznan (Poland) and came in fifth as the very first German World Cup participant in the Canadian discipline. At the German Championships in Canoe Racing 2010 in Cologne, she became the first German female champion in this new discipline in the single canoe over 200 m.

At the European Championships 2011 she won the silver medal and again finished 5th at the World Championships 2011 .

Web links

• Portrait at DKV
• Lydia Weber wins World Cup qualification, report by the German Canoe Association