Around Wannsee
There is an international rowing regatta around Wannsee that takes place every year on October 3rd in Berlin. Official name in 2008: 7th International BRC Long Distance Regatta “Around Wannsee” - A rowing festival for everyone: the regatta through east and west on the day of German unity . It is organized by the Berlin Rowing Club under the direction of Philip Schmolling and Uwe Graf, the supporting program is largely designed by rowing world champion Robert Sens and the organization team.
It consists of various races in four and eight , all of which go in a mass start on a 15 km long course. At the same time there is a race for children that goes over 3 km and, like the main races, has its destination on the Kleiner Wannsee in front of the boathouse of the Berlin Rowing Club. In 2008, for the first time, a rowing rally organized by the Berlin rowing association was organized.
history
Forerunners of Rund um Wannsee were various internal regattas of the Berlin Rowing Club, which, however, were almost always carried out over a short distance of 500 m. One of the few exceptions in 1995 was the “Wannsee-Achter” regatta organized by then head coach Uwe Graf, which covered a distance of 16 km. In contrast to Rund um Wannsee , however, there was no mass start, but, as is usual in long-distance regattas, a flying start with a 60-second interval between the boats. The races did not start on the Großer Wannsee , but in front of the Berlin Rowing Club on the Kleiner Wannsee. Apart from that, the 12 boats that were at the start of the "Wannsee Achter" had the same route ahead of them as the participants from Rund um Wannsee today . However, there was no repetition of the "Wannsee eight"; the following years internal regattas over 500 m were carried out again.
In 2002, the then rowing attendant of the Berlin Rowing Club, Alfred Schmolling, again organized a regatta over a long distance, but this time with a mass start on the Großer Wannsee: the first edition of Rund um Wannsee . Back then, as now, his son Philip Schmolling was responsible for the sporting direction of the regatta (exception in 2005). As part of personnel changes on the board of the Berlin rowing club, the sports chairman Uwe Graf took over the position of head of organization from Alfred Schmolling in 2005 and still holds it today.
While the internal regattas only included boats from the Berlin Rowing Club and, in some years, boats from the neighboring rowing club on Wannsee , boats from all over Berlin, Germany and the international sector followed the invitation from the Berlin Rowing Club. In the last few years, boats from Berlin, Frankfurt, Hamburg, Lübeck, Dortmund, Rostock, Cologne, Essen, Böllberg, Vilshofen and others have taken off again and again. Mostly the British came from abroad, but there was also a delegation from China in 2007. A special feature was the “All-Star-Achter / Wannsee-Express” formed by the Berlin Rowing Club in recent years, which consists of former world and Olympic champions was composed of all over the world. In 2007 this competed against a selection of rowers from the German national team.
The great interest of rowers from Berlin, Germany and the world in the regatta made it possible and necessary to advertise the regatta for the first time in 2008 as an international regatta of the World Rowing Association .
The distance
Main race - 15 km
The races on the Großer Wannsee begin with an exceptional mass start for rowing. Rowing continues on the Havel, past the Pfaueninsel , onto the Jungfernsee and under the Glienicker Bridge along to the Glienicker Lake . Then you can row on the Griebnitz Canal from Griebnitzsee via Stölpchensee and Pohlesee to Kleiner Wannsee. The goal is in front of the boathouse of the Berlin rowing club.
Children's race - 3 km
The start is on the Stölpchensee . Rowing continues across the Pohlesee to the Kleiner Wannsee. The goal is in front of the boathouse of the Berlin rowing club.
particularities
Mass start
Usually, in rowing regattas, either six to eight boats are started simultaneously or in a flying start with a time interval of 10 to 60 seconds. In Rund um Wannsee , however, all boats from all races are sent to the regatta course in a mass start on the Großer Wannsee. The boats are placed in several starting rows one behind the other, with the fastest boats (criteria are boat and age class) in the first rows and the slower ones further back. The start-up procedure also differs from the usual. The judge is not behind the boats, but at the level of the first starting line. There is also no false start, for which time penalties are imposed for boats that start too early.
Children's double figure eight
For children (under 14 years) in rowing regattas is usually the largest boat class of four . Only from the junior age group (15 years) is rowed on regattas in the strapped figure eight with a helmsman . However, the race announced by Rund um Wannsee and developed together with the Berlin rowing youth is rowed in the rolled children's double eight. The participating children are registered by their clubs and drawn into the boats on the day of the regatta in order to encourage the children from the various clubs to get to know each other and get to know each other.
Time relations in Masters races
In Rund um Wannsee, in the master's age classes (from the age of 27 and up), further classes are not subdivided according to the average age of the rowers, but rather all teams are rated together. The concept of the so-called time relation race (ZRR) of the German Rowing Association is instead applied to all master teams in a variant adapted to the long distance and the mass start. The time relation is calculated based on the exact average age of a team, and not just based on the age group.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Iztok Čop (Slovenian Olympic Champion): October 3, 2007 - Čop in Špik zmagala v All Stars osmercu. Retrieved February 16, 2014 (Slovenian).
- ^ 7th International Long Distance Regatta Berlin, Germany. World Rowing Association , archived from the original on July 25, 2008 ; accessed on February 16, 2014 .
- ↑ Time Relation Race (ZRR). (No longer available online.) German Rowing Association , archived from the original on October 29, 2013 ; accessed on February 16, 2014 . 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.
- ↑ Zeitrelationen - time relations. Berliner Ruder-Club , archived from the original on October 3, 2012 ; accessed on February 16, 2014 .
