Grade 7 Rowing Event: What Counted Here Was the Performance of the Entire Class

Physical education teacher Gisela Opper helped organize the rowing event for 7th graders and documented the day with a report and photos:

In conjunction with the school sports day, the 7th-grade “rowing event” took place at the boathouse under the guidance of rowing coach Martin “Stromi” Strohmenger. This is a sport-specific triathlon in which it is not the performance of the individual but the performance of the entire class that counts. Each student first had to row 250 meters on an ergometer. For this, there was one ergometer on the terrace for each class, with classmates cheering loudly all around the terrace.

In the “Monte Carlo Rowing” event, five students at a time had to run to the boat, get in, cast off, row through the left arch of the railroad bridge, turn around, and row back to the dock. The next class was already waiting in the starting blocks there. There were five rounds per class, so that everyone got to row at least once.

The event concluded with a class relay race around the Boathouse loop, a course already familiar to everyone from the spring run for grades 5 and 6. This time, however, each class had to run four laps, which amounted to a distance of about 260 meters per student.

In the end, Class 7c—which had posted some very good times at the Monte Carlo rowing competition—came in first, followed by Class 7a, which had won the relay, and Class 7b.