Jörg Lehnigk

Jörg Lehnigk ( born January 8, 1980 in Greifswald ) is a retired German rower.

Lehnigk 2000 was the first time a member of the national team at the Nations Cup, the unofficial U23 World Championships, he won silver in the lightweight single sculls. In the same year he was spare rowers for the lightweight double sculls by Ingo Euler and Bernhard Rühling at the Olympic Games in Sydney. He was together with Jens Wittwer U23 world champion lightweight double sculls in 2001, 2002 he succeeded also in the lightweight single sculls.

From 2001 to 2003 Lehnigk was a member of the German lightweight double quartet, who won bronze at the 2003 World Championships in Milan 2003. For the Olympia 2004 Lehnigk moved to Sweep Rowing and qualified in the lightweight coxless pairs for the world championships for non-Olympic boat classes. Together with Joachim Drews, he finished sixth.

As of 2005, rowed Lehnigk together with Manuel Brehmer the lightweight double sculls for Germany. 2005 and 2006 they reached the World Cup finals, but were unable to reach each only sixth place. 2007 Lehnigk was established in early German champion in the lightweight single sculls at the world championships he was back together with Bremer in the double sculls, reaching eighth place, which Germany was qualified in this boat class for the Olympics.

At the German Championships 2008 Small boat he missed a medal, so that the runner-up Jonathan Koch moved into the double sculls with Brehmer. Lehnigk was nominated as a lightweight rower substitute for the Olympics and represented Germany in the earlier lightweight single sculls at the world championships, where he won the B-final that finished in seventh place.

Through a series of failures disease Lehnigk came at the Olympics to an unusual use: In German coxless four rowers were two before the semi finals ill. This could be compensated by the use of two scheduled replacement rower Richard Schmidt and Marco Neumann first, the boat managed the final. Before the finale, however, fell ill and Neumann, so that rowers had to move up from another boat in order to contest the race can. Since the aft Germany had not qualified for the finals, the national coach, eight rowers Jochen Urban decided to put in the quad and instead use Lehnigk for the B-final in eighth. This took over the position of the Bugmanns, but the German boat defeated the Chinese team, finishing in last place.

After the Olympics Lehnigk ended his career.

International success

• 2000: 2nd place U23 World Championships in the lightweight single sculls
• 2001: 1st place U23 World Championships in the lightweight double sculls
• 2001: 6th World Championships in lightweight quadruple sculls
• 2002: 1st place U23 World Championships in the lightweight single sculls
• 2002: 5th place in the World Championships lightweight quadruple sculls
• 2003: 3rd place World Championships in lightweight quadruple sculls
• 2004: 6th World Championships in lightweight coxless pairs
• 2005: 6th World Championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2006: 6th World Championships in lightweight double sculls
• 2007: 8th place World Championships lightweight double sculls
• 2008: 7th World Championships in the lightweight single sculls
• 2008: 8th Place Olympic Games in the aft