Good prospects for Leon Sauer (9c) even after just a short training period

As the German ergometer runner-up, Lucas Schäfer is a strong candidate for the Olympic team

The young RuS rowers achieved top results at the Ergocup Rhein-Neckar, a highly competitive event drawing a large field of elite rowers from five federal states: Leon Sauer (9c), who competed in the 15/16-year-old junior division and hopes to qualify for the Hessian Rowing Association’s eight, reinforced his case for a spot on the selection boat by finishing 7th out of 38 competitors, setting a personal best of 5:00.1 minutes in an official competition—making him the sixth-best rower from Hesse. State coach Harald Blum expressed satisfaction with the athlete, who has only been rowing seriously since last fall.
In the 13-year-old boys’ division, the two RuS young rowers Jonas Neirich (7a) and Lasse Jacob (6a) returned to the Steinmühle with 8th and 9th-place finishes. In their very first race, both demonstrated great fighting spirit. Luca Hahn (6a) also showed great fighting spirit, finishing in 6th place, and Leon Vielhaben ( 8c) narrowly missed the podium by just one second. Coxswain Viktor Zovko (7c) supported the team with his active participation.

At the final of the German Indoor Series in Essen-Kettwig, Lucas Schäfer, our 20-year-old RuS athlete, became the German ergometer runner-up, thereby once again earning a spot on the 2016 Olympic team. He narrowly lost the final to Lars Wichert, the stroke of the German four, but his performance earned him the No. 1 spot among all lightweight rowers in Germany!