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The team of eight women , including German woman roller (int. Competition abbreviation GER W8 +), the national team of the German Rowing Federation in rowing eight of the women and the counterpart to Germany rollercoaster . The woman eight with helmswoman has also been training at the Federal Rowing Center in Dortmund since 2005 (previously in Saarbrücken ). The “Team Frauenachter” brand was developed in parallel to the Deutschland-Achter from 2006, after the main sponsor at the time, Telekom, left the company as a sponsor of the Olympic rowers.
Woman rowing
Women's rowing, and especially women's oar rowing, had to struggle with long-term resistance from the sports associations. The men's rowing sport had its Olympic premiere in Paris in 1900 with four boat classes, including the eighth. But it was not until 1974 that world championships and from 1976 Olympic rowing competitions were also held in women's rowing. And at the European rowing championships , which have been held since 1893, women competed for the first time in 1954, but also in eighth. German championships were held in 1956 and 1957 as all-German championships in women's eight and elimination races were held for the European rowing championships until 1964, before the rowing associations of the FRG and GDR competed independently as in international sport.
As in rowing in general, the boat communities develop from club sport through racing communities (in the GDR also company sports communities ) and nationwide bases with boarding character to the international top level.
History of the German women's eight
GDR
The counterpart to the federal bases in Ratzeburg and Dortmund was the SC Berlin-Grünau . From the beginnings of company sports communities, through concentration and relocation, the water sports club with the sections rowing, canoeing and sailing on the Berlin-Grünau regatta route in southeast Berlin , which was the venue for the rowing and canoeing competitions of the 1936 Olympic Games , developed. The women's eight of the GDR won the gold medal at the Olympic Games in 1976, 1980 and 1988 and the World Cup in 1974, 1975 and 1977 and around 25 other World Cup and European Championship medals.
FRG
Structural changes in women's racing rowing were brought about in particular by the dominance of women rowers in the GDR, which began in 1966, and new training methods were developed at the Ratzeburg rowing academy. The development in belt rowing was initially “overslept”. The long priority of scull rowing through the previously practiced style rowing continued to have an effect for a long time. German Championships for the belts of two and - of four , often based on the eight education were only extended from the 1970th The dominance of the Eastern Bloc could not be broken until the fall of the Berlin Wall.
Reunified Germany
After the fall of the Wall, the existing forces from East and West Germany were bundled, so that the female eight rowed internationally quite successfully at first. At the 1992 Summer Olympics , the bronze medal was won behind Canada and Romania, with the greater part of the team rowing in the GDR eighth before. The team also won the bronze medal at the world championships in 1993, and even the world championship title in Indianapolis in 1994. After that, the German women's eight became weaker and only finished eighth and last at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. In the Olympic cycle from 1997 to 2000 no noteworthy successes could be booked, the qualification for the Olympic Summer Games 2000 in Sydney was missed.
From 2001 Ralf Holtmeyer looked after the Frauenachter team and led it back into the zone of success. After two bronze medals at the 2001 and 2002 World Championships, the team again won the World Cup in Milan in 2003. At the Olympic rowing regatta 2004 , however, only managed to place fifth. The women's eight team was then able to win several medals at the European Rowing Championships and a World Cup silver medal in 2006. For the Olympic Games in 2008 and 2012, the qualification was only achieved at the last moment at an international regatta in Lucerne for a few remaining starting places. In both cases, the team retired woman eighth in the repechage from, so was not allowed to start in the Olympic final. Ralf Holtmeyer switched back to the men's division after the 2008 season, and since then the training management has been taken over by various rowing coaches. Thomas Affeldt has been the national coach of the women's eight since 2013. The qualification of the eight for the Olympic Summer Games 2016 was missed, only in the competition of the two-without a team starts from the squad of the women's eight. Kerstin Hartmann and Kathrin Marchand took eighth place in Rio de Janeiro.
Sporting successes
The table lists all participations of German women eight in the Olympic rowing regatta and all medal successes of German women eight at European rowing championships and world rowing championships.
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Squad season 2020
At the Olympic base in Potsdam , the squad athletes prepare for a new season every year starting in autumn. A team for the women's eight will only be selected in April / May, after various test competitions have been completed, including in two-man without a helmsman and on the rowing ergometer . For the international regatta season, which begins in May with the Rowing World Cup and the European Rowing Championships , the team is designated for the eighth. At the same time, rowers for the two-man without and the four-man without a helmswoman are selected from the same team. After missing the qualification for the 2020 Summer Olympics , the focus is on the two without and the four without.
The teams can be redeployed during the season. In the squad of the women's belt team, 11 rowers are currently preparing for the season:
- Melanie Göldner (Rowing Club Potsdam eV)
- Anna Härtl (Rowing Club Potsdam eV)
- Alexandra Höffgen (Neuss Rowing Club)
- Isabelle Hübener (Rowing Club Potsdam eV)
- Frauke Hundeling (German Rowing Club from 1884 eV)
- Ida Kruse (rowing club Münster from 1882 eV)
- Alyssa Meyer (Rowing Club Tegel 1886 eV)
- Sophie Oksche (Danube Rowing Club Ingolstadt eV)
- Tabea Schendekehl (Rowing Club Hansa von 1898 eV Dortmund)
- Charlotte Wesselmann (Rowing Club Flensburg eV)
In addition, Larina Hillemann from the Lübecker Ruder-Gesellschaft v. Member of the team as a taxwoman in 1885 .
Trainer
- Peter Jost (until 1988)
- Wolfgang Schell (1989–1994)
- Dieter Altenburg (1995)
- Jörg Landvoigt (1996)
- Eberhard Kaschen (1997–1998)
- Wolfgang Schell (1999-2000)
- Ralf Holtmeyer (2001-2008)
- Christian Viedt (2009)
- Bernd Lindner (2010)
- Christian Viedt (2011)
- Ralf Müller (2012)
- Thomas Affeldt (since 2013)
marketing
Since 2010, the marketing of the women's eight has been in the hands of "Deutschland-Achter GmbH". The Fördergesellschaft Rudern mbH has transferred all rights to this company. Deutschland-Achter GmbH thus markets both the athletes from the Deutschland-Achter team and the women from the Frauenachten team. The managing director of the marketing company is Carsten Oberhagemann, who is also the press spokesman for the Frauenachter team. The current main sponsor is WILO from Dortmund.
Web links
- Official website
- Website (until 2006) ( Memento from June 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
- Official website of the German Rowing Association
- Image collection and placement of women eight of the GDR
- Image collection and placement of women eight of the FRG
literature
- Anne Hutmacher, The Development of Woman Rowing in Germany (Dissertation), Cologne 2010.
- Marc-Oliver Klages, The development of training methods in racing rowing in Germany after World War II with special consideration of the endurance methods during the division of Germany (diploma thesis), Cologne 2005.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Frank Neumann: Telekom is booting the eighth. Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 21, 2005, accessed on March 3, 2015 .
- ^ Club history of SC Berlin-Grünau. Retrieved March 3, 2015 .
- ↑ Anne Hutmacher: The development of women rowing in Germany (dissertation, Cologne 2010). Retrieved March 3, 2015 .
- ^ Portrait of Thomas Affeldt. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on April 2, 2015 ; Retrieved March 3, 2015 . 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.
- ^ Judith Garbe: Women's belt team presented in Potsdam. In: rudern.de. November 7, 2019, accessed April 28, 2020 .
- ↑ Press release "Marketing by Germany Eights". April 14, 2010, accessed March 3, 2015 .
