Samuel Beltz

Samuel Beltz ( born August 31, 1980 in Hobart ) is an Australian lightweight rowers.

Career

Beltz began in 1998 with the rowing and in 1999 took part in a World Cup race for the first time when he was in Lucerne with the Australian lightweight quadruple sculls Sechter. In 2001, he first participated in world championships and finished with the Australian lightweight eight to sixth place, with the lightweight coxless pairs he came on the ninth. His first World Cup medal won Beltz at the World Rowing Championships in Milan in 2003, when he reached the lightweight quadruple sculls in second place, followed in 2004, bronze with the lightweight eights.

At a twelfth place in the double sculls at the 2005 World Championships with Cameron throw followed fourth places in 2006 and 2007 with Thomas Gibson. At the Olympic Games in 2008 Beltz and Gibson occupied the tenth place. 2010 Beltz returned after a year's break in the World Cup back, the best result of the season succeeded the Australian lightweight coxless four with Anthony Edwards, Samuel Beltz, Blair Tunevitsch and Todd Skipworth at the World Championships in New Zealand: In a photo finish decision from the British foursome had seven hundredths of a second before the Australians, another hundredth of a second was returned to the Chinese four bronze. With Benjamin Cureton for Tunevitsch one years later succeeded at the World Championships in Bled, the revenge, the Australians won the world title against the Italians and the British. In the finals of the Olympic Regatta in 2012, the Australian lightweight four finished fourth.

The 1.79 m wide Beltz is a trained physiotherapist, he rows for the Lindisfarne RC.