The newly formed Germany eight collected a setback after the severe preliminary run and missed the hoped-for EM medal.
In the victory of Olympic champion Great Britain in Plowdiw in Bulgarian, the flagship of the German Rowing Association (DRV) had to be content with fourth place. Silver went on the Olympic second Netherlands, Italy finished third.
Bronze just missed
In the final, the crew led by Schlagmann Theis Hagemeister, who had set an exclamation mark on Thursday and was just barely scratched past the world, after the favorite British and Dutch. The German team was unable to confirm the strong performance from the preliminary. The Italians also passed in the final sprint. The German eighth lacked 29 hundredths of a second. At the past five European championships, the DRV parade boat only won one medal, in the previous year there was silver. Previously, the German eighth had won the gold medal eight times in a row from 2013 to 2020.
Women’s double fourser get silver
In the other boat classes, the German rowers provided more gratifying results. The women’s doubles, who had won bronze in a different line-up last year, won silver, the men’s four ended up fifth.
Para-Mixed Doppelweier and light double -two get gold
After two gold medals on Saturday by Fabio Kress in a light men-one and by Valentin Luz and Kathrin Marchand in the Paralympic Mixed double-Weier, the DRV boats also added in the non-Olympic classes on Sunday. There was gold in the Para-Mixed Doppelweier for Jasmina Bier and Paul Umbach, for Maximilian and Alexander Aigner in the light two without a helmsman, as well as for Joachim Agne and Finn Wolter in a light double two.