Paul Sieber

Paul Sieber
Paul Sieber (right) with his brother Bernhard in the 2016 Olympic outfit
nation	Austria
birthday	12th February 1993 (age 27)
place of birth	Vienna ,  Austria
size	177 cm
Weight	70 kg
job	Army athlete
Career
discipline	Row , skull
society	Rowing club STAW
Trainer	Carsten Hassing
National squad	since 2008
status	active
Medal table
U23 world championships 1 × 0 × 0 × Universiade 1 × 0 × 0 ×
U23 world championships gold 2012 Trakai Easy double scull  Universiade gold 2013 Kazan Easy double scull
Last updated: August 13, 2018

Paul Sieber (* 12. February 1993 in Vienna ) is an Austrian lightweight - rowers . Together with his older brother Bernhard Sieber (* 1990) he was the 2013 university champion in the lightweight double scull .

Career

Paul Sieber started rowing in 2004. In 2008 he took part in the four-four at the Junior World Championships and took 19th place. In 2009 he was twelfth with the double scull , in 2010 and 2011 he was twelfth with the double scull. In 2010 he took part in the One at the Youth Olympic Games and finished in fifteenth place.

Paul Sieber has been forming a lightweight double scull with his brother since 2012. In 2012 the two rowed in the qualifying regatta for the Olympic Games and finished fifth; only the first two boats were allowed to start in London. The brothers won the title at the U23 World Championships in 2012 in Trakai , Lithuania . Paul and Bernhard Sieber also reached the finals at the 2012 European Championships after the Olympic Games, finishing fourth. In 2012 and 2013 the Sieber brothers were Austrian champions in double sculls. In 2013 the two finished fifth at the European Championships . In July, the two won the Universiade in Kazan . At the world championships at the end of the season they reached ninth place.

In 2014, Paul and Bernhard Sieber took twelfth place at both the European and World Championships . In the following year came eleventh place at the European championships and ninth place at the world championships , with the world championship placement meaning direct Olympic qualification for 2016. After they qualified for the semi-finals through the hope round, they failed there to make it to the final.

Web links

• Paul Sieber at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Paul Sieber in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Biography on the homepage of Bernhard and Paul Sieber (accessed July 31, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sieber brothers clearly fail in the semifinals ( memento of the original from August 10, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) 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. (August 11, 2016)