100% Professional - One day with Laurits Follert
Birthday: 10.04.1996
Height: 1,94m
Profession: Federal police officer
If you talk to Laurits Follert, you're bound to be in a good mood. Always cheerful and always with a big smile on his face. But as soon as he sits in the rowing boat, the Duisburg native shows a different side. Full professionalism. Just before the competition, he is completely focussed. And at the start gun of the race, he seems to explode. Laurits Follert has been an integral part of Team Germany Eight for 8 years.
Laurits celebrated his breakthrough in the German men’s eight in the 2016/17 season. 21 years old at the time, he was part of the young men’s four that reached the A final at the 2017 World Championships in Sarasota, USA. In 2019, he became European and World Champion for the first time with the flagship, the men’s eight. In 2020, he defended his title at the European Championships and won silver at the 2021 Olympic Games in Tokyo.
In order to remain successful after his career, Laurits Follert decided to join the Federal Police's support group. He works from September to December to advance his professional career alongside his sporting one. For the rest of the year, he is fully available to the team German Men’s Eight.
You can read what a normal day in the life of Laurits Follert looks like in the following timeline.
06:30 Wake up
07:00 Small breakfast with oatmeal, skyr yoghurt and a fruit juice
07:30 Ride by bike to the rowing performance centre in Dortmund
07:45 Arrival
08:00 Warm-up with mobility exercises in the gym at the rowing performance centre
08:15 Preparation of the training boats
08:20 First training session on the Dortmund-Ems Canal
09:45 End of training and stowing the boats
09:50 Freshen up and change
10:00 Big breakfast with muesli, oatmeal, skyr yoghurt, fresh fruit and granola
11:00 Athletics training in the weight room of the rowing performance centre
11:45 Resting in the available relaxation rooms
14:00 Lunch together with the team and dishes prepared by the in-house chefs
15:30 Preparing the training boats
15:45 Second training session on the Dortmund-Ems Canal
17:30 End of training and cleaning of the boats
18:00 Drive home
18:30 Dinner preferably with salmon fillet, jacket potatoes, baked vegetables and feta cheese
19:30 Relaxing on the couch with series or YouTube videos
22:00 Bedtime
Achievements
2013 Men’s Eight World Champion (Junior)
2015 - Men’s Eight World Champion (U23)
2019 - Men’s Eight European Champion in Lucerne, Switzerland
2019 - Men’s Eight World Champion in Linz, Austria
2020 - Men’s Eights European Champion in Poznan, Poland
2021 - Men’s Eight Olympic silver medallist in Tokyo, Japan
