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Robert Stephan Alexander Lücken (born April 30, 1985 in Amsterdam ) is a Dutch rower who was world champion and European champion in 2013 with the four-man without a helmsman .

Athletic career

The 1.99 m tall rower from the Amsterdam student rowing association ASR Nereus won the bronze medal behind the Germany eight and the Canadians at the 2009 World Championships with the Dutch eight . In 2010 he finished fourth at the European Championships with eighth place . At the 2010 World Championships he rowed to eleventh place in a four-man without a helmsman. The following year he was back in eighth place at the 2011 World Championships and came in sixth. In 2012, Gützen missed the London Olympics due to an injury.

In London, Kaj Hendriks , Boaz Meylink , Ruben Knab and Mechiel Versluis took fifth place in the four without a helmsman. With Robert Lücken for Ruben Knab, the Dutch four-man won the title at the European Championships in Seville in late May and early June 2013, ahead of the Romanians and the Germans . Three months later, the Dutch also won the 2013 World Championships in Chungju in front of the boats from Australia and the United States. In the line-up of Meylink, Olivier Siegelaar , Versluis and Lücken, the Dutch four reached fourth place at the 2014 European Championships . The boat also achieved the same ranking at the 2014 World Championships in front of a home crowd in Amsterdam. In 2015 the rowers of the foursome switched to the eighth. After finishing sixth at the European Championships , the Dutch eighth won the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships .

In 2016, the Dutch eighth won the World Cup regattas in Varese and Lucerne, but only finished sixth at the European Championships . At the 2016 Olympic Games, the Dutch eight with Kaj Hendriks, Robert Lücken, Boaz Meylink, Boudewijn Röell , Olivier Siegelaar , Dirk Uittenbogaard , Mechiel Versluis, Tone Wieten and helmsman Peter Wiersum won the bronze medal behind the British world champions and the German European champions.

At the European Championships 2017 there were five rowers from last year's eighth with Meylink, Hendriks, Wieten, Versluis and Lücken, plus Roel Braas , Ruben Knab, Björn van den Ende and helmsman Diederik van Engelenburg . This new eight won the bronze medal behind the large boats from Germany and Poland. At the world championships , the eighth finished fourth. After a season without international success, Lücken returned to the Dutch eighth in 2019. At the beginning of the season, the Dutch eighth won bronze at the 2019 European Championships in Lucerne behind the Germans and the British. At the world championships, the Germans won ahead of the Dutch and the British.

Web links

• Robert Lücken at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
• Robert Gaps in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )