Martin Sauer
Martin Sauer ( born December 17, 1982 in Wriezen ) is a German rower and since the 2009 season, helmsman of the Germany - rowing eight. With this team he celebrated his biggest success: the Olympic gold medal in London in 2012 and before the World Champion title at the World Rowing Championships in 2009, 2010 and 2011.
Sauer was at the Junior World Championships in 2000 for the first time a member of the national team and was at the helm of the German rowing eight junior world champion. In the following years he contributed in the U23 field the four- and 2001 was also coxswain of the German lightweight rowing eight.
The World Rowing Championships in 2005 in Gifu (Japan), he won the coxed four bronze, was founded in 2006 in this boat class world champion and finished a year later in Munich again the third place. After he had taken in 2008 with the German lightweight eight World Championship silver, he was at the European Championships for the first time helmsman of Germany - rowing eight. He took over the position of Peter Thiede, the Beijing ended his career after the Olympics.
The World Rowing Championships 2009, 2010 and 2011, he led the team to win the title, 2010, he was with the Germany - aft also European champion. At the Olympic Games in London 2012 Sauer won the gold medal with Germany - eighth.
The World Rowing Championships 2012 for the non-Olympic boat classes he won with the lightweight eight also the gold medal.
The World Rowing Championships in 2013 he won a silver medal, behind the United Kingdom and ahead of the United States.
Achievements
- 2000: 1st place Junior World Championships in the aft
- 2001: 2nd place World Under 23 Regatta in the four with coxswain
- 2001: 9th place World Championships in the lightweight eight
- 2002: 5th place World Under 23 Regatta in the four with coxswain
- 2003: 1st place World Under 23 Regatta in the four with coxswain
- 2004: 1st place World Under 23 Regatta in the aft
- 2005: 3rd place world championships in four with coxswain
- 2006: 1st place World Championships in four with coxswain
- 2007: 3rd place World Championships in four with coxswain
- 2008: 2nd place World Championships lightweight roller
- 2008: 4th place European Championships in the aft
- 2009: 1st place World championships in eight
- 2010: 1st place European Championships in the aft
- 2010: 1 world championships in eight
- 2011: 1st place World championships in eight
- 2012: Gold medal at the Olympic Games in the aft
- 2012: 1st place in the World Championships lightweight roller
- 2013: 2nd place world championships in eight