Stefan Locher

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Stefan Locher (born January 11, 1968 in Dortmund ) is a former German rower . His greatest successes were winning the world title in the lightweight eighth in 1996 and 1998, winning the university world title in 1992 in the lightweight four without a helmsman , and fourth place in the same boat class at the 2003 World Rowing Championships .

Locher began his career at the rowing club in Witten . In 1996 he became world champion in the eighth lightweights for the first time . Two years later he was able to repeat this success on the Fühlinger See in Cologne . He was deployed on both the port and starboard sides and is one of the few rowers who have become world champions on both sides.

After Locher was able to achieve seventh place in the two-man without a helmsman at the World Championships with his partner Axel Schuster in 2001 , he and Schuster switched to the lightweight four-man without helmsman for the 2002 season. After a fifth and a fourth place at the rowing world championships in 2002 and 2003 , he was part of the German Olympic team for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. There he started together with Axel Schuster, Andreas Bech and Martin Müller-Falcke in an easy four without a helmsman. With a strong run-up, in which the team almost set the German record in this boat class, the team qualified for the semi-finals. However, the team did not get into the race there and missed the finals. The B final was also disappointing, with the four-man losing to a number of European teams that they had always defeated in the World Cup. Overall, the team with Locher took eleventh place.

After the Olympic Games, Locher, who last started for RTHC Bayer Leverkusen , continued his training for a year and then ended his career. At national level, he was German champion seven times in his career: in the lightweight eight in 1996, 1998, 1999 and 2002 and in the lightweight four without a helmsman in 2002, 2003 and 2004. He has also won numerous titles at class championships .

International success

  • 1987: 4th place senior match (unofficial U23 World Cup) in the lightweight four-man without a helmsman
  • 1992: 1st place in the university world championships in the lightweight four-man without a helmsman
  • 1996: 1st place in the world championships in the lightweight eighth
  • 1997: 5th place in the world championships in the lightweight eighth
  • 1998: 1st place in the world championships in the lightweight eighth
  • 1999: 6th place in the lightweight two-man championship without a helmsman
  • 2001: 7th place in the lightweight two-man championship without a helmsman
  • 2002: 5th place in the world championships in the lightweight foursome without a helmsman
  • 2003: 4th place in the world championships in the lightweight foursome without a helmsman
  • 2004: 11th place in the Olympic Games in the lightweight four-man team

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Carsten Oberhagemann: Foursome reached the semi-finals. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 16, 2004, accessed on October 19, 2014 .
  2. ↑ Carsten Oberhagemann: Lightweight quad missed the entry into the finals. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , August 20, 2004, accessed October 19, 2014 .
  3. ↑ Carsten Oberhagemann: In the end, the disappointments predominated. Westdeutsche Allgemeine Zeitung , 23 August 2004, accessed on 19 October 2014 .
personal data
SURNAME Locher, Stefan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German rower
DATE OF BIRTH January 11, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Dortmund