New competition, new hope: Germany's rowing stars in EM fever!

New competition, new hope: Germany's rowing stars in EM fever!
The European Rowing Championships start this weekend in Plowdiw, Bulgaria. These championships mark the first endurance test for a young generation in rowing. Over 500 athletes from 32 nations will take part in the competitions that will last until June 1, 2025, whereby the finals will be broadcast on the Livestream on Sportschau.de on weekends. The changes introduced in the context of the new competition regulations are based on a direct qualification about the preliminary runs, without hoping to tighten the regatta program and to avoid tactically guided races in the preliminaries, such as RuderSport-Magazin reported.
Olivia Clotten and Lene Mührs, who are German champions in two without a helmsman in 2025, start in one of the most demanding boat classes in rowing. The 10 meter long and 30 centimeter wide boat demands years of training and precision. Your last EM medal in this boat class has been back since 2016, while the last World Cup medal even dates from 2007. Nevertheless, Clotten and Mührs already bring a silver medal from the U-23 World Championships 2023 in Plowdiw.
The team around Clotten and Mührs trains at the federal base in Berlin and expects strong competition.
Change of coach and new structures
The German Rowing Association (DRV) has introduced new structures both in terms of personnel and in terms of content in order to improve performance culture and to get back to the head of the world truck. Mark Emke from the Netherlands appears as the new coach of the men's strap team, while Francesco Fossi strengthens the men's Skull area. Robert Sens, the new sports director, demands patience in the face of the necessary changes. In a training session in Ratzeburg, Simon Schubert and Kaspar Virnekäs qualified in two without for Plovdiv.
The training methods were changed, and new diagnostic trainers and polarized block training were introduced to optimally prepare the athletes for the challenges.
The DRV is represented for the European Championship with one of the largest contents consisting of twelve Olympic boat classes. Mattes Schönherr is part of the team in the men's eight, who will fight for medals and took fourth place at the games in Paris. Of the members of the time, only three rowers remained. Marc Weber represents one Olympic champion Oliver Zeidler in men's one, who cannot participate for study reasons. Only a bronze winner from Paris has remained in the team in the women's double.
medalle opportunities and objectives
The Rowing European Championships in Plowdiw offers the German athletes the opportunity to demonstrate their skills and to test the new structures of the DRV. Sens emphasizes the importance of a return on a positive culture of performance and the long -term goals of the association. Medal allocation takes place via the prelets that begin on Thursday before the finals take place at the weekend.
In the para area, three boats are also registered, including two mixed two. Boats in the lightweight area will also be represented at this European Championship. The event has continued to develop in recent years, and the introduction of new competition regulations is an important step in the history of the European Rowing Championships, which have been playing an important role in international rowing since its foundation in 1893, as from [Wikipedia] (https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/ruder- European Championships).
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