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FRVS on the podium as German champions
Competition

Historic German Championship in Vaʻa

At the Hawaiian Sports Festival in Rerik on the Baltic Sea the FRVS makes history: gold in the mixed V6 and the Vaʻa single at the German long-distance championships.

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Florian Späth and André Niemann (FRVS) with their medals at the Vaʻa Sprint European Championship at Dorney Lake
Competition

A shower of medals for the FRVS at the first Vaʻa Sprint European Championship

At the first Vaʻa Sprint European Championship at Dorney Lake, the outriggers of the FRVS 1898 take numerous medals – and four titles in the six.

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FRVS at the start of the outrigger race on Tegeler See
Competition

FRVS shines at the season opener

At the outrigger race 'Rund um Scharfenberg' on Tegeler See, the FRVS mixed team takes 1st place in the mixed classification at the 2026 season opener.

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Announcement: rowing youth open day
Events

Announcement: rowing youth open day

The FRVS rowing youth introduces you to their sport: give it a try!

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DEKA donation for the FRVS
Club

Deka donation for our youth

„The donation is a wonderful and meaningful signal,“ says a delighted Lars Littfin, chair here at the FRVS. „The 1,000 euros help us, this winter too…

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Rowing youth: review of the year
Review

Rowing youth: review of the year

The 2025 season is drawing to a close, and we'd like to take that as an occasion to look back on the past rowing season. For our 17 active young people we…

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WW8 2024 and 2025
General

WW8 2024 and 2025

Punctually at 10 a.m., 9 fearless rowers got ready to cast off in our admittedly ageing eight. On the Main, several eights and various other boats were already gathering…

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FRVS in the dragon boat on the Main
Youth

Canoe youth successful at the MUF

Canoe sport is practised with us in many facets. One of our focuses is the single whitewater or touring kayak. These classes of boat foster, especially…

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Rowing touring trip Lübeck, 21 to 24 August 2025
Youth

Rowing touring trip Lübeck, 21 to 24 August 2025

If there's one thing you can rely on, it's the delays of Deutsche Bahn. Nonetheless, at 5.50 a.m. we were of course all punctually on the platform in Frankfurt.…

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FRVS and FKV at the Rugia Hoe
General

Forever second – and yet content?

The Rugia Hoe 2025 was a very special experience for us as a racing partnership with our outrigger friends from the FKV, the Frankfurter Kanu Verein 1913 e. V. –…

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The leap into the cold water
Youth

Adventure on the Soča and Isel

When I think back to the last few weeks, I get goosebumps all over again. First we were with our club on the Soča in the Julian Alps in Slovenia.

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Our FRVS men at the awards ceremony
Competition

FRVS at the Sprint Championship

Our athletes competed in the vaʻa (outrigger canoe) on the 1972 Olympic course in various disciplines against strong competition from all over Germany.

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Our eight, the galley
Youth

Funzel rowing in Frankfurt am Main

Experience something different and see the city glow from another view. 12 fearless souls set out, as darkness fell (7 p.m.), to row the Main. With…

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Rowing touring trip from Wertheim to Aschaffenburg
Youth

Rowing touring trip from Wertheim to Aschaffenburg

Thursday, day 1: We set off at the Wertheim Rowing Society upstream towards Homburg. We started at the little palace in the Hofgarten. On the route we had…

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Rowing youth successful at the autumn regattas
Youth

Rowing youth successful at the autumn regattas

After rather training-light summer holidays, the rowing youth got properly stuck into the blades and sculls again in the first Hessian school week, since on…

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Boat equipment
Youth

Whitewater tour into the Engadin

We arrived on Saturday, and the paddling started on Sunday. As the first river, the Sanna was chosen, which is formed by the confluence of the Trisanna and Rosanna and after…

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Canoeists as a group on the water
General

40 km of relaxation in the Middle Rhine valley

On 25 August, some canoeists from the adult canoe group paddled the picturesque stretch between Geisenheim and the Loreley near St. Goarshausen. The…

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Outrigger women
Competition

1st German Championship in Vaʻa/Outrigger

On the weekend of 6/7 July, the 1st German Sprint Championship in *outrigger and vaʻa took place on the Olympic regatta course in Munich Oberschleißheim. On the…

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Moni
Club

Main Cleanup

This year our club took part in the „clean rowers' village“ campaign and diligently collected rubbish. In all, eight brave „little tailors“ came together who…

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FRVS at the Hawaiian Sports Festival
General

Hawaiian Sports Festival

In her first official race in this class of boat, our Christiane Pape became German runner-up long-distance champion in the single outrigger, women. At the…

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OC6 at the MMC
Competition

Hessian champion 2024 in the outrigger

Our OC-6 mixed team is still on a winning streak. After a good start to the season in Berlin over 18 km, the outrigger six selection of the Frankfurter Ruder- und…

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FRVS team OC6
Competition

OC-6 Regatta Rund um Scharfenberg

A successful start to the season for our OC-6 crew. Our athletes started the season successfully as a mixed team (3 women, 3 men) and won…

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Marcello on the podium
Competition

Canoe youth at the regatta on the Rhine

7 October 2023 was set to be a great day: the first participation in a downriver race in over 10 years brought the FRVS, in the best of weather, an overwhelming…

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Boris firmly in the saddle
Competition

Hessian champion in canoe freestyle

Jan, Marcello and Nicolo take titles

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FRVS carrying rubbish up from the Main
Club

MainCleanUp Day with the FRVS

Lots of rubbish along and on the Main – we're constantly confronted with it. Hardly a training session goes by without us fishing rubbish out of the Main and disposing of it in our bin. Hardly…

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Rowing youth successful in Limburg
Youth

Rowing youth successful in Limburg

After the rowing youth travelled to a training camp on the Altrhein in Erfelden in the last week of the holidays, the regatta in Limburg was directly on the…

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Outrigger regatta on the Baltic Sea
Competition

Outrigger regatta on the Baltic Sea

After the racing partnership from the Main was unfortunately unable to build on its usual successes in the open class of the outrigger six last year (2022), this year's…

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Paddling like God in the south of France
Youth

Paddling like God in the south of France

Under the so tempting event title „Paddling like God in France“, our Christian, with the support of the parents and keen paddlers, planned…

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125 years of FRVS – rowing on the Vltava
General

125 years of FRVS – rowing on the Vltava

125 years of the Frankfurter Ruder- und Kanusportverein Sachsenhausen 1898! We wanted to celebrate that with a special touring trip. After an announcement, a preliminary meeting, a shortlist…

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Boat slide on the Saalach
Youth

Whitewater on the Saalach

From 18 to 21 May 2023, the kayak section of the FRVS club organised a whitewater training. The trip was, as has often happened before, on the river Saalach, in the…

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Spouting buoys on the Tegeler See
Youth

Rowing touring trip Berlin

Having already been out in eastern Berlin in 2018, this year we rowed the Berlin west with 9 FRVS rowers. On 15 September we travelled very early…

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the winning boat – the bees
General

Flickering bees, glowing mushrooms..

Thanks to the exceptionally beautiful autumn evening, all the paddlers had a wonderful backdrop for taking their glowing, decorated boats out on the Main.

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Rowing youth open day
Events

Rowing youth open day

In autumn too, the FRVS is again offering an open day to introduce young people to rowing. On 25 September, children and young people aged 11 to…

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Maren on the umpire boat at the IVF Sprint World Championship 2022
Competition

IVF World Sprint Championships 2022

Our club fielded as many as 7 athletes to take part in this year's IVF World Sprint Championships 2022, London. From 8–16 August 2022, on…

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Rowing touring trip on the Moselle
Youth

Rowing touring trip on the Moselle

Now we went downstream towards Minheim, heading for our first lunch break. Past high cliffs and beautiful vineyards. Hungry, we went ashore and…

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Rowing youth successful in Bürgel
Youth

Rowing youth successful in Bürgel

On 2 and 3 July, our small regatta training group competed at the regatta in Offenbach Bürgel. Taking part were Hadrian and Tim, each in the single and together in the…

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The flags of DSW Darmstadt, the German Canoe Association and the FRVS
Youth

Whitsun training camp of the rowing youth

The rowing youth used the extended Whitsun weekend for a training camp in Erfelden on the Altrhein. We were able to be guests of the very nice rowers and paddlers of DSW…

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Obituary Helmut "Heli" Kling
Club

Obituary: Helmut "Heli" Kling

Helmut "Heli" Kling, 9 Mar 1932 † 3 Jun 2022

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Whitewater canoe kids gather on the water
Youth

Children's whitewater workshop

... is everyone here, then?

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OC-2 race participants at the awards ceremony
Competition

We're Hessian champions in the outrigger

The start of the outrigger sixes

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Our rowing youth and Jutta Brüggemann with our boats
Club

Award for youth mentor in the DRV

Commitment to our rowing youth: badge of honour of the DRV for Jutta Brüggemann

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Rowing youth open day 24 April
Events

Rowing youth open day 24 April

On the last Sunday of the Hessian Easter holidays, just before school starts again, children and young people aged 11 to 15 can, at the open day of the…

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Helm with a glowing, spooky mask like a hellhound
Youth

When little monsters glow ...

Illuminated boats at dusk

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Obituary Helmut Scholze
Club

Obituary: Helmut Scholze

Helmut Scholze, born 16 May 1932 † 14 Oct 2020

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Lohr
Youth

Rowing touring trip 2020 Würzburg-Collenberg

Arrived in Würzburg and the boats rigged up at the Würzburg rowing club, off we went on the first stage to Karlstadt. We made a stopover at the…

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