Rower Magdalena Lobnig missed out at the European Championships in Munich. This year’s Olympic bronze medalist and four-time European Championships medalist, who is struggling with health problems, finished fourth in the singles on Sunday. The 32-year-old from Carinthia was only 24 hundredths short of bronze. The German Alexandra Föster caught Lobnig, who had been on course for a medal for a long time, just before the finish line.
On the Munich Olympic regatta course, the overwhelmingly superior winner Karolien Florijn (NED) and the Greek Evangelia Anastasiadou were also faster than the 32-year-old from Völkermarkt. With the Swiss Jeannine Gmelin, a medal contender had failed before the semifinals due to a Covid infection.
Julian Schöberl finished fifth in the non-Olympic lightweight singles, well behind the podium places. The Upper Austrian was 21.06 seconds behind the Greek winner Antonios Papakonstantinou. Schöberl competed in one because his two-person partner Lukas Reim had canceled due to a Covid disease. Valentina Cavallar/Lara Tiefenthaler came fourth in the LG double sculls in the B final and were tenth overall.
