Oliver Zeidler easily wins Rowing DM
Created: 04/28/2022, 16:30
By: Dieter Priglmeir
Oliver Zeidler (picture above) was unrivaled at the German Championships in Krefeld.
The 25-year-old won all four races and said he still had "room for improvement".
© Detlev Seib
Reliable delivery with a loop – this is how the Zeidler rowing family’s trip to Krefeld can be described.
While Oliver Zeidler withstood the pressure as the big favorite and won gold at the German small boat championships, sister Marie-Sophie, who was three years younger, stunned the competition when she promptly made it into the A final in her first year in the open class .
"But this race was really rubbish," says the 23-year-old.
Schwaig/Krefeld-
Oliver Zeidler didn't want to rate his final too much.
From the preliminary to the final, the 25-year-old had won all races with ease.
That wasn't a determination of where we were, there was just too much room for improvement, he said.
"I never had to drive at full speed." Competitors like Tim-Ole Naske are taking a break in the post-Olympic year, and Zeidler showed the hopeful young scullers their limits in the first 750 meters.
After that he easily drove the race home.
Speaking of home: After the regatta, the Schwaiger went to Frankfurt, where his new club Germania (we reported) gave him a “warm welcome”, as Zeidler reports.
But now it is time to prepare for the World Cup races.
"Because then you have to drive the entire 2000 meters," says the student.
His sister Marie-Sophie also returned satisfied from Krefeld.
The fact that she would end up in the one-finals right away with her first DM "was by no means foreseeable three weeks earlier," says the federal police officer.
In the preparation she was "extremely flat".
At the squad reviews in early April, she finished the 6,000-meter performance test on the ergometer in eighth place.
Now that seven stronger players were represented at the DM, it was all the more gratifying to reach the run of the six best.
However, she was by no means satisfied with the final.
The three previous runs were stuck in her bones.
"After just 500 meters I had firm legs," she reports.
The cycle, the general feeling - there was simply nothing left in the quiver.
Constant crosswinds also made life difficult for her on the unfavorable flank.
"It was a technically very difficult race."
Marie-Sophie Zeidler (l..) surprised the competition by taking part in the final of her first DM in the open class.
© Detlev Seyb
Today, Thursday, she is going to the training camp in Berlin, where the national coach is putting together the boats for the current season.
With sixth place in the singles final, Marie-Sophie Zeidler can hope that she will be part of a twos or fours, which can then be recommended for higher tasks at an international regatta in Essen in mid-May: for example the World Cup in Poznan and then in the August for the European Championships in Munich.
The 23-year-old: "It would be a dream to be there."
