Tour du Lac
The regatta Tour du Lac (also called franz. Tour du Léman or Tour du Lac Léman à l’Aviron) is a rowing regatta on the lake Geneva in Switzerland. Since 1972 the regatta is organized every year by the yacht club Société Nautique de Genève at the end of September. The tour, which starts in Geneva and runs around the lake Geneva has a distance from 160 km (99 mi) and is the longest non-stop rowing regatta in the world.[1]
Route
The starting point of the regatta is the mole of the club Société Nautique de Genève. Traditionelly the route runs on the Swiss lake side past Nyon, Lausanne, Vevey and Montreux to the end of the lake in Villeneuve. Afterwards the boats row along the French lake side past the cities Le Bouveret, Evian and Yvoire back to Geneva. Because of the adverse external conditions in some years the route was changed in the short-run. In addition for reasons of safety every boat is escorted by a motorboat.
Records
- The course record for the complete distance holds the team of RC Hamm / Karlsruher Rheinklub Alemania / Mainzer RV / Stuttgart-Cannstatter RC. In 2011 won the team after 11 hours 43 minutes and 30 seconds.
- With 33 participations in 2014 Matthias Decker from the Ludwigshafener RV is the rower, who participate the most often to the regatta around lake Geneva.[2]
- In 2012 Christian Klandt from the Bonner Ruder-Verein completed the regatta alone in a skiff and arrived Geneva after 14 hours and 27 minutes.[3]
Results
| Year | Team | Time |
|---|---|---|
| 2014 | RTHC Leverkusen / RaW Berlin / Dresdner RC / Bonner RG | 12 h 14:11 |
| 2013 | RC Hamm / Mainzer RV / RC Nürtingen / Stuttgart-Cannstatter RC / Bonner RV | 12 h 06:29 |
| 2012 | Ludwigshafener RV | 11 h 45:46 |
| 2011 | RC Hamm / Karlsruher Rheinklub Alemannia / Mainzer RV / Stuttgart-Cannstatter RC | 11 h 43:30 |
| 2010 | Mainzer RV / Stuttgart-Cannstatter RC / Ulmer RC Donau / RC Hamm | 13 h 10:36 |
| 2009 | Clydesdale ARC / RGM Karlsruher RV Wiking / Stuttgart Cannstatter RC / Mainzer RV | 12 h 17:42 |
| 2008 | Karlsruher RV Wiking / Bonner RV / Mainzer RV / Kitzinger RV | 13 h 33:15 |
| 2007 | Karlsruher RV Wiking / Bonner RV / Mainzer RV | 11 h 55:19 |
| 2006 | Dresdner RV / Dresdner RC | 12 h 00:22 |
| 2005 | Bonner RV 1882 / Mainzer RV | 12 h 28:25 |
| 2004 | Dresdner RC | 14 h 41:00 |
| 2003 | Karlsruhe RV Viking / Bonner RV / Breisacher RV / RTHC Leverkusen | 12 h 13:57 |
| 2002 | Koblenzer RC / Neuwied RG / Bonn RV | 13 h 14:00 |
| 2001 | Ludwigshafener RV / Mülheimer Wassersport | 15 h 53:00 |
| 2000 | Turbo Bonn | 11 h 58:34 |
| 1999 | Karlsruher RV Wiking / Neuwieder RG | 13 h 15:40 |
| 1998 | drop out | - |
| 1997 | Turbo Bonn | 13 h 31:18 |
| 1996 | drop out | - |
| 1995 | Turbo Bonn | 12 h 15:34 |
| 1994 | RG Red Bull Bonn | 12 h 22:29 |
| 1993 | Turbo Bonn | 08 h 43:20 |
| 1992 | Turbo Bonn | 13 h 03:42 |
| 1991 | Turbo Bonn | 13 h 09:08 |
| 1990 | Bonner RV / WSD Düsseldorf / SRV Bonn | 12 h 30:31 |
| 1989 | ARCR Bonn / GTRV Neuwied / Bonner RV | 12 h 28:34 |
| 1988 | Bonner RV / RRS Bückeburg / RGF Lehrte / SRV Bonn / Neuwieder RG | 11 h 00:52 |
| 1987 | drop out | - |
| 1986 | RG Kassel / Marbacher RV / RC Grenzach / RC Giessen / Heidelberg | 12 h 46:06 |
| 1985 | Marbacher RV / RG Kassel | 12 h 40:52 |
| 1984 | Ludwigshafener RV | 07 h 13:00 |
| 1983 | Hevella Berlin | 11 h 25:10 |
| 1982 | Heidelberg / RC Giessen | 13 h 08:20 |
| 1981 | Viking Utrecht | 13 h 26:30 |
| 1980 | Viking Utrecht | 13 h 32:52 |
| 1979 | no boat arrived | - |
| 1978 | RG Bonn / Hamburg / WSV Godesberg | 13 h 30:03 |
| 1977 | no boat arrived | - |
| 1976 | drop down | - |
| 1975 | RG Bonn / Breisacher RV | 13 h 47:48 |
| 1974 | RG Bonn / Badeneysee / Essen | 03 h 51:45 |
| 1973 | Société Nautique de Monaco | 15 h 38:27 |
| 1972 | Société Nautique de Genève | 16 h 53:00 |
External links
- Tour du Léman à l'Aviron (französisch) by the rowing department of the Societe Nautique de Geneve
