Lara Tiefenthaler rowed in the LG-EM-Gold-Diepresse.com

Lara Tiefenthaler won the gold medal in the lightweight one at the European Rowing Championships in Plowdiw in Bulgarian. In the EM record time of 7:29:38 minutes, the 25-year-old Viennese (Rowing Association Staw) won 2.35 seconds ahead of Norwegian Maia Lund and 2.38 in front of the Russian Marija Schownner.

Tiefenthaler cheered on a start-finish victory. « The race was just as I wanted it to put my stamp on the race, » said the freshly baked European champion. You were able to determine the first 1,500 m. « It was very important to me. I knew that the last 400 meters are about everything and everything can happen again. » The 25-year-old thus ensures the first European Championship women for the ÖRV since Magdalena Lobnig in one in 2016 in Brandenburg.

Olympic rank of ten it classifies higher

Her Olympic appearance in Paris classifies Tiefenthaler. « The Olympic Games last year were certainly my career highlight, but this is certainly my career highlight in one. The hard work over the winter has paid off and I am very happy that I could show what I got on the international stage, » said the Olympic tenth in lightweight double-wise (with Louisa Altenhuber). Altenhuber is now taking at least a year break, so Tiefenthaler is currently only starting in the non-Olympic lightweight one.

In two weeks it will be in use at the World Cup in Varese, the highlight of the season is the World Cup in Shanghai. As a long -term goal, she has set herself switching to the heavy boat classes.

National coach Traer: « Really very confident »

ÖRV national coach Kurt Traer was very satisfied. « This is really cool. She dominated the race from the first blow and no longer gave it out, which was really very confident. She was greatly set to the race by her trainer Anna (note). » Laura Swoboda and Lisa Zehetmair were fifth in the B final of the two and thus overall eleventh. Para-Ruder David Holzweber became the EM-ZETENT in the competition PR1 M1X. (APA)