Viennese Lara Tiefenthaler triumphs and breaks EM record while rowing!

Viennese Lara Tiefenthaler triumphs and breaks EM record while rowing!

Plowdiw, Bulgarien - In a heart-warming success, the 25-year-old Viennese Lara Tiefenthaler won the gold medal in the lightweight one at the European Rowing Championships in Plowdiw, Bulgaria. With an outstanding time of 7:29:38 minutes, she set up a new EM record and not only secured the title, but also wrote Austrian sports history. This is the first European Championship title for the Austrian Rowing Association (ÖRV) in the women's area since 2016 and the first success in a Magdalena Lobnig's gold medal in 2026, like meinbezirk.at reported.

Lara Tiefenthaler showed a clear start-finish victory in the race. The first 1,500 meters in particular ran according to their ideas. "A lot can happen at the last 400 meters," she said afterwards, making it clear the high drama in the last phase of the race. Her competition, the Norwegian Maia Lund , crossed 2.35 seconds later, followed by the Russian Marija Schowner, who was 2.38 seconds behind the Viennese, as well as Vol.at holds.

Next goals and challenges

Although this victory is a great success for Tiefenthaler, she tensely classifies her tenth place at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with her teammate Louisa Altenhuber . Altenhuber will now pause for a year, so Tiefenthaler has the opportunity to compete in the lightweight one, a discipline that is not Olympic. In two weeks, the World Cup in Varese, Italy, on the plan, followed by the World Cup in Shanghai, where it would like to demonstrate her services again. Before her sporting career, she strives to switch to the heavy boat classes in the long term.

örv national coach Kurt Traer was very satisfied with the victory of Tiefenthaler and praised the excellent preparation under trainer Anna Götz . Other athletes of the team were also active in Plowdiw, so Laura Swoboda and Lisa Zehetmair fifth in the B final of the two (overall eleventh place). In addition, Para-Ruder David Holzweber reached tenth place in the competition PR1 M1X.

respect and security in rowing

Rowing in Austria is not only shaped by sporting success, but also by commitment to respectful coexistence. As part of the "respect & security" program of Austrian rowing sports, a foundation is laid to prevent abuse of power and sexual violence. Target groups are athletes, trainers and officials of all age and performance classes.