Philipp Stüer

Philipp Stüer
nation	Germany
birthday	20th October 1976
place of birth	Muenster
size	194 cm
Weight	93 kg
job	engineer
Career
discipline	belt
society	Rowing club Münster from 1882
Trainer	Dieter Grahn , Manfred Beyer
National squad	since 1995 to 2008
status	resigned
End of career	2008
Medal table
World Cup medals 2 × 2 × 1 ×
U23 world championships gold 1997 Milan Eighth  World championships silver 2001 Lucerne Foursome without gold 2002 Seville Foursome without bronze 2003 Milan Foursome without gold 2006 Eton Eighth silver 2007 Munich Eighth
Last change: February 26, 2010

Philipp Stüer (born October 20, 1976 in Münster ) is a former German rower .

Athletic career

Philipp Stüer learned to row at the Lüdinghausen rowing club. With the rowing group of the St. Antonius High School in Lüdinghausen he quickly achieved his first successes. In 1997 Philipp Stüer had his first international assignment at the Rowing World Cup in Munich . With the German U23 selection, he finished third. The boat qualified for the Nations Cup and won the (unofficial) U23 world championship in eighth place .

In 1998, Stüer with Bernd Heidicker , Martin Asholt and Ulrich Viefers became German champions for the first time in the open class in the four-man without a helmsman . After a team reshuffle in preparation for the World Cup, Stüer took eighth place at the World Championships in Cologne with Martin Asholt, Uli Viefers and Martin Weis . In 1999 he qualified in a four-without, together with Bernd Heidicker, Stefan Heinze and Dirk Meusel, for the World Championships in St. Catherines , but just missed the finals and finished seventh.

In the following year the four-man, in which Jörg Dießner now rowed instead of Heinze , maintained his position as the fastest German boat. Even after the Germany eight before the World Cup regatta in Lucerne missed the Olympic qualification and the remaining eight rowers for the World Cup on the Rotsee are formed into a domestic German competitor, this four-man remains after the narrow elimination in the semifinals before the national competition from the Germany eighth. At the initiative of the DRV and the responsible national coach, a new four-man team will be put together almost eight weeks before the Olympic Games in Sydney using FES measurement technology on several sections under racing conditions. Only Dießner and Meusel were nominated for this, but Stüer and Heidicker took part in the Olympic Games as substitutes.

In 2001 Stüer was finally able to secure a permanent place in the German four-man without a helmsman and won silver at the World Championships in Lucerne with Bernd Heidicker , Sebastian Thormann and Paul Dienstbach . With the same line-up, the boat won the world championship title in Seville in 2002 and set the world best time of 5: 41.38 minutes , which was valid until 2012 . The following year the team won bronze at the World Championships in Milan . At the Olympic Games in Athens , Jochen Urban replaced Paul Dienstbach, who had recently fallen ill. Although the team drove a new Olympic record time in the run-up, the boat around Philipp Stüer only reached the B final, but was able to win it and thus took seventh place.

In 2005, Stüer took a year off from competitive sports in which he did a thesis for his mechanical engineering degree in Pueblà , Mexico . It was not until 2006 that he appeared again internationally at the World Cup in Munich together with Bernd Heidicker in two without a helmsman . For the third World Cup of the year, both of them moved into eighth place in Germany, with Stüer and Heidicker the team won the world championship in Eton . A year later, the Germany eight with Stüer on board reached silver at the home world championships in Munich .

After mixed World Cup results in the eighth before the Olympic Games in Beijing , Stüer and his other teammates from previous years lost their place in eighth because the German Rowing Association formed a completely new team shortly before the Olympic Games. This team finished last in Beijing. Stüer then ended his active rowing career.

Awards

He was named Sportsman of the Year by the Sports Association of the City of Münster at the Ball des Sports in 1997, 2000, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2006 and 2007.

Professional career

From 2009 to 2013, Stüer worked as a research assistant at the Research Institute for Rationalization (FIR) at RWTH Aachen University with the aim of obtaining a doctorate on the subject of "Designing industrial services according to lean principles" . Stüer successfully completed his doctorate in January 2015 with an oral examination. Since 2014 he has been working in the service department of SMS Group GmbH with a focus on product management for repairs and modernizations. Since 2017 he has headed the group for repairs and modernization of systems for the processing of long products.

International success

• 1997: 1st place in eighth ( Nations Cup )
• 1998: 8th place in the four without a helmsman (World Championships)
• 1999: 7th place in the four without a helmsman (World Championships)
• 2000: Substitute for the Olympic Games
• 2001: 2nd place in the four without a helmsman (World Championships)
• 2002: 1st place in the four without a helmsman (World Championships)
• 2003: 3rd place in the four without a helmsman (World Championships)
• 2004: 7th place in the four without a helmsman ( Olympic Games )
• 2006: 1st place in eighth place (World Championships)
• 2007: 2nd place in eighth place (World Championships)

Publications

• P. Stüer: Design of industrial services according to lean principles , Aachen, 2015

Web links

• Profile on the website of the Deutschland-Achter ( Memento from May 14, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
• Philipp Stüer at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Philipp Stüer in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Disaster in rowing: Olympic debacle for Germany eighth. In: Spiegel Online . August 12, 2008, accessed December 31, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Westfälische Nachrichten : The last round has started - high-speed final spurt: Many candidates are already giving full throttle in the new year , Münster's athlete of the year 2012, January 30, 2013.