We are the Swiss women's elite rowing team. Our training group is young, dynamic and ambitious. Our big goal is to win a medal at the 2024 Olympic Games. On the long road to Paris, we have already achieved something historic: with 4th place at the World Championships in Belgrade (2023), we won the first quota place for a women's large boat in the history of Swiss rowing. We will be accompanied by Nick Lloyd, our Australian coach. As part of the Swiss coaching team, Nick is just as committed and disciplined to our success. With our Team Succès, founded in 2022, we now want to really take off.
This goal requires enormous commitment from every single rower. We grew up in different parts of Switzerland, but train centrally at the Swiss Rowing Association's squad base in Sarnen. Over the years, we have not only grown together as a sports team, but also as one big family. We train together, live under the same roof, cook together and spend our free time regenerating, playing together or studying.
Every year, we travel abroad for at least five training camps and five international competitions, such as World Cups, European and World Championships. We use the training camps to work even more focused towards our goals. In rowing, there are only a few competitions per season, which makes it all the more important to make the most of every racing opportunity and to approach it with full focus and the right attitude.
The sport of rowing is so fascinating because strength, speed, endurance and high-precision technique have to come together in a rowing race. The art of rowing is to make the race and the rowing strokes look easy and elegant, even though we are at our physical limit. To achieve this, the training effort is extremely high and more intensive than in almost any other sport.
Nick Llyod is the National coach / Assistant coach Elite