Richard Schmidt (rower)

Richard Schmidt

Personal information
Born	(1987-05-23) 23 May 1987 (age 29)
Sport
Sport	Rowing
Medal record Representing  Germany Men's rowing Olympic Games 2012 London M8+ 2016 Rio de Janeiro M8+ World Championships 2009 Poznań M8+ 2010 Karapiro M8+ 2011 Bled M8+ 2013 Chungju M8+ 2014 Amsterdam M8+ 2015 Aiguebelette M8+ European Championships 2014 Belgrade M8+

Richard Schmidt (born 23 May 1987 in Trier) is a German rower. He was part of the team that won the gold medal in the men's eight competition at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, he and the team also have won three World Rowing Championship titles and also four European Rowing Championship titles.

Richard Schmidt rowed for Ruderverein Treviris 1921 in Trier, Germany. At the junior level, he won two medals at the World Rowing Junior Championships in 2004 and 2005. In 2007, he rowed in the men’s U23 World Rowing Championships in Glasgow in the coxless four together with Sebastian Schmidt, Fokke Beckman and Kristof Wilke in which they won a gold medal. During Autumn of 2007, the team managed to take home second place at the European Rowing Championships in Poznań after taking a long break from the sport.

In 2008, Schmidt rowed with Fokke Beckman at the World Cup opener in Munich in the coxless pair and at the end of the season was nominated to row for the German eight in the U23 World Championship, in which the team placed fourth. During this time, the positioning of the German eight boat was reorganised prior to the 2008 Olympic Games, Schmidt was nominated as a substitute for Beijing. He then moved on to the semifinals with Marco Neumann, Gregor Hauffe, and in the coxless four as Filip Adamski and were ill. The newly composed team had surprisingly reached the finale, however, Neumann was then replaced with Jochen Urban. The boat finished in 6th place.

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