Rowing club Wandsbek

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The rowing club Wandsbek e. V. (RV Wandsbek for short or RVW) is a rowing club founded in Hamburg in 1972 . The boathouse and club area of ​​RV Wandsbek are on the Alster Canal in Hamburg-Alsterdorf. This makes the club Hamburg's northernmost rowing club.

The club was founded in particular by former students from the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium who did not want to stop rowing after graduating from high school but also did not want to join any other Hamburg rowing club. The most important founding member and initially also a board member in the RVW was Günter Schulz-Kriebel. As a teacher at the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium he was protector of the student rowing club of the Matthias-Claudius-Gymnasium (founded in 1925) and the link between the gymnasium and the club until 1982. The SRV at MCG is today the youth department of the rowing club.

The club has produced several world champions . Thus Maja Darmstadt 2000 world champion in the lightweight quadruple sculls. Teja Töpfer was in the lightweight eighth in 1996 when he won the world title in Strathclyde . In 2006 Annika Müller rowed in the victorious junior double quad at the Junior World Championships in Amsterdam . Michael Trebbow won a gold medal in a junior two-man match at the Junior World Championships in Trakai (Lithuania) in 2013 . The SRV achieved numerous other successes at the MCG at the Hamburg championships and at the German school championships as part of the youth training for the Olympics event .

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Coordinates: 53 ° 36 ′ 31.9 ″  N , 9 ° 59 ′ 42.1 ″  E