Thorsten Schmidt (rower)

Thorsten I. Schmidt (born October 14, 1978 in Bonn ) is a German biochemist and former rower . His greatest success is the silver medal in the lightweight quadruple scull at the 1999 World Championships.

Schmidt was a member of the German national team for the first time in 1996. At the Junior World Championships , he won the B final in a single, finishing seventh overall. Two years later he was first German champion in the lightweight single, then he was nominated in this boat class for both the Nations Cup and the World Championship. At the Nations Cup , the unofficial U23 world championships, he won bronze, at the world championships in Cologne he finished 13th.

In 1999 Schmidt, together with Manuel Brehmer , Dennis Niemeyer and Franz Mayer, formed the German lightweight double scull , which was runner-up at the World Championships in St. Catherine's .

For the Olympic year 2000 Schmidt switched to oars and was nominated for the Olympic Games in Sydney in the lightweight four without a helmsman with Roland Händle , Björn Später and Marcus Mielke . There the four took 12th place.

Schmidt then interrupted his career, only in 2002 he started in two rowing world cups with Stefan Roehnert in double sculls. In 2004 he returned to the national team. With the lightweight eighth he came in fourth place at the World Championships in Banyoles .

Schmidt, who started for the German RC Hannover , then ended his sporting career.

Schmidt received his doctorate in 2010 from the LMU Munich .

International success

1996: 7th place Junior World Championships in single
1998: 3rd place U23 world championships in lightweight single
1998: 13th place in the world championships in the lightweight single
1999: 2nd place world championships in lightweight quadruple sculls
2000: 12th place at the Olympic Games in the lightweight foursome without a helmsman
2004: 4th place in the world championships in the lightweight eighth

Web links

Thorsten Schmidt at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
Thorsten Schmidt in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Thorsten Schmidt: Human CPAP and CP110 in centriole elongation and ciliogenesis . October 25, 2010 ( uni-muenchen.de [accessed November 25, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Schmidt, Thorsten
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Schmidt, Thorsten I.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	German rower and biochemist
DATE OF BIRTH	October 14, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bonn

[1] Thorsten Schmidt: Human CPAP and CP110 in centriole elongation and ciliogenesis . October 25, 2010 ( uni-muenchen.de [accessed November 25, 2019]).