Robert Jahrling

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Robert "Rob" Jahrling (born February 14, 1974 ) is a former Australian rower and Olympic medalist.

Athletic career

Robert Jahrling is the son of the Olympic rowing champions Marina Wilke and Harald Jahresling from the GDR. Jahrling came to Australia with his parents when his father became the sports director of the Australian Rowing Federation in 1991.

Jahrling started for the Sydney Rowing Club . From 1993 the two-meter man was part of the Australian national team. From 1993 on, Jahrling took fifth place in three consecutive world championships: 1993 in a four-man with a helmsman , in 1994 in a four-man without a helmsman and in 1995 in a eighth . At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, the Australian eighth finished sixth with Jahrling.

In 1997, Jahrling took eighth place at the world championships in a double without a helmsman . After a year without an international start, Jahrling returned to eighth in 1999, with which he finished seventh at the World Championships . In 2000 the Australian eighth finished second behind the British in the World Cup regattas in Vienna and Lucerne. Even in front of a home crowd at the Olympic Games in Sydney , the Australians could not beat the British, with eight tenths of a second behind the Australians received the silver medal.

After a year break, Robert Jahrling started at the 2002 World Championships in two with a helmsman and in a four with a helmsman; while he was eliminated with the four in the repechage, he won the bronze medal in the two with Tom Laurich and helmsman Michael Toon . At the 2004 Olympic Games , Jahrling rowed in a four-man without a helmsman. Together with Dave McGowan , Tom Laurich and David Dennis , Jahrling finished fourth in the last big race of his career.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ According to the Olympic database Sports-Reference, Jahrling was born in Benjamín Aráoz , Argentina . That is at least unlikely if the parents were competitive athletes in the GDR.
personal data
SURNAME Jahrling, Robert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Yearling, Rob
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian rower
DATE OF BIRTH February 14, 1974