Ratzeburg rowing club

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Ratzeburg RC
Flag of Ratzeburger RC
Full name Ratzeburger Rowing Club e. V.
abbreviation RRC
Association headquarters Doktor-Alfred-Block-Allee 5
23909 Ratzeburg
Founded March 20, 1953 in Ratzeburg
Training waters Lauenburg Lakes
Upper Schaalsee
Chairman Thomas Lange
Members 448
Homepage www.ratzeburger-rc.de

The Ratzeburg Rowing Club (RRC) is a rowing club from Ratzeburg . It was founded on March 20, 1953 with the assistance of Karl Adam . The rowers of the RRC have achieved numerous successes in the Olympic rowing regattas and in the rowing world championships .

The clubhouse is located on the northern bank of the Ratzeburg Küchensee . The RRC is a member of the German Rowing Association (DRV) and the Rowing Association Schleswig-Holstein (RVSH).

history

Foundation and Karl Adams Germany eighth

The first one of the RRC from 1953

The founding of the association in 1953 is largely due to the involvement of the rowing trainer Karl Adam, who was a teacher at the Lauenburg School of Academics in Ratzeburg after the Second World War . There he trained the rower Claus von Fersen in the rowing team of the school , who was not allowed to participate in rowing regattas due to the lack of membership of his school rowing team in the German Rowing Association . The association was therefore founded on March 20, 1953 in the Ratzeburg hotel "Stadt Hamburg" in the presence of 21 people. Alfred Block was elected first chairman. In 1955 and 1956, the club built its boathouse .

The Ratzeburg rowing club was the city's first rowing club, but with the expertise of Karl Adam and a few rowers, the basis for sporting success was already in place. As early as 1955, the first two titles in the German championship rowing in Berlin-Grünau were won by Klaus von Fersen in a single and by von Fersen and Manfred Rulffs in a double scull . In 1958, only five years after the club was founded, the same team achieved their first championship title in the men's eighth and fifth place at the European Rowing Championships in Poznan. Karl Adam developed the first successful phase of the Germany eight from the team , which lasted until around 1968 and led, among other things, to two Olympic victories (1960 and 1968) with significant involvement of rowers from the RRC. The Ratzeburg eight-team was elected Team of the Year for the Federal Republic of Germany in 1959, 1960, 1962 and 1968 .

In the course of the successful series of the Ratzeburg rowing club, the rowing academy in Ratzeburg, which still exists today, was founded by Karl Adam in 1966. Until his death in 1976 Adam ran the academy himself. After the Olympic victory in 1968 Adam Eighth were not as successful as before, and the first phase of success of the RRC came to an end.

Sporting successes after the fall of the Berlin Wall

After a lean spell of around 20 years, the club found its way back to success after reunification. First, Kai von Warburg won a world championship gold medal in the lightweight double scull in 1991. For the 1995 season, the two-time Olympic champion Thomas Lange from Halle moved to the RRC, for which he won a final bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Atlanta . Between 1997 and 2004, Meike Evers , Marita Scholz and Marco Geisler in particular were internationally successful for the club in the large skull boats for men and women: Evers won two world titles and two Olympic gold medals, Scholz two world titles and Marco Geisler participated four world titles for men. From 2007 the RRC member Florian Mennigen rowed internationally, with the Germany eighth three world titles between 2009 and 2011 and the Olympic victory in London 2012 .

Ratzeburg rowing regatta

The development of the Ratzeburg rowing regatta, which the club has held annually on Lake Küchensee since 1957, was just as steep as the success story of the club itself . Due to the presence of the popular Germany eight, the regatta attracted numerous spectators, for example in 1965 when Adams eighth competed with the Olympic team from the Vesper Boat Club from the USA. Since the regatta course was regularly expanded and modernized with the Albano system , start system and finish tower, the RRC was able to host several championship competitions on it: the junior world championships in rowing in 1967 and 1974 and the German championship rowing in 1984, apart from that, one is held annually Regatta over the Olympic track length of 2000 m mostly held at the beginning of June. The class of the starting field depends on the integration in the regatta calendar and therefore fluctuates.

successes

Web links

Commons : Ratzeburger Ruderclub  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Statutes of the Ratzeburger Ruderclub e. V. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 14, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Toter Link / www.rrc-online.datenspiel.de  
  2. ^ Berthold Witting: Ratzeburg: Thomas Lange new RRC chairman. In: www.rudern.de. German Rowing Association, February 20, 2016, accessed on February 21, 2016 .
  3. ^ Ratzeburger Ruderclub e. V. - Information page at the German Rowing Association. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on March 24, 2015 ; accessed on January 14, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rudern.de
  4. ^ Alfred Block: The Ratzeburg Rowing Club - Thoughts and Memories. (No longer available online.) Formerly in the original ; accessed on January 16, 2015 .  ( Page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.rrc-online.de  
  5. ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: German Championship Rowing (DMR): One - Men (places 1–3). Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on January 16, 2015 .
  6. ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: German Championship Rowing (DMR): double sculls - men (places 1–3). Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on January 16, 2015 .
  7. ^ Wilfried Hoffmann: German Championship Rowing (DMR): eighth - men (places 1–3). Rüsselsheimer Ruder-Klub 08, accessed on January 16, 2015 .
  8. ↑ Wolf Dietrich Bensen: The Ratzeburg Rowing Regatta - A Review. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 11, 2015 ; accessed on January 17, 2015 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.rrc-online.datenspiel.de

Coordinates: 53 ° 41 ′ 56.1 ″  N , 10 ° 45 ′ 43.2 ″  E