Reinhold Batschi
{{Short description|Romanian/Australian rower and coach}}
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{{Use Australian English|date=March 2018}}
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| birth_place = Sânpetru, Brașov County, Romania
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{{MedalSport|Men's rowing}}
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{{MedalCompetition | European Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalBronze | 1967 Vichy | Coxless four }}
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Reinhold Batschi OAM (born 20 August 1942 in Sânpetru, Brașov County, Romania){{cite Sports-Reference |title=Reinhold Batschi |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/reinhold-batschi-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418075013/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/reinhold-batschi-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |access-date=19 September 2017}} is a former Romanian rower and leading Australian rowing coach. He was the inaugural Head Coach of the Australian Institute of Sport's rowing program and Head Coach of the Australian Olympic rowing teams from 1980 to 2000.
Rowing career
Batschi became involved in rowing as a result of Romania's compulsory national service.{{cite journal |title=An interview with Reinhold Batschi |journal=Sports Coach |date=July–September 1987 |volume=11|issue=1|pages=33–37}} Representing Romania as a rower, Batschi won a bronze medal in the men's coxed fours at the 1967 European Rowing Championships. At the 1968 Mexico Olympics, his crew the men's coxed four finished seventh. He retired from competitive rowing in 1969.{{cite web|title=Rowing at the Australian Institute of Sport|url=http://www.ausport.gov.au/row.html|website=Australian Web Archive|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://webarchive.nla.gov.au/awa/20000119130000/http://www.ausport.gov.au/row.html|archive-date=19 January 2000|df=dmy-all}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
Coaching career
Batschi completed a sports studies degree at the National Academy of Physical Education and Sport in Bucharest, Romania. In 1970, he became at coach at his rowing club in Bucharest. Batschi them moved to West Germany to become Head Coach at the City of West Berlin Rowing Centre. He coached the West German team to medals at the 1976 Montreal Olympics.
In 1979, he moved to Australia with his wife Florie and two daughters to take up the appointment of National Coaching Director for the Australian Rowing Council (Rowing Australia). In 1984, he was appointed inaugural Head Coach of the Australian Institute of Sport's rowing program. He held this position until his retirement in September 2007.
In 1986, Batschi coached the Australian men's eight which won the gold medal at the 1986 World Rowing Championships. This was the first and only time Australia won the men's eight at either the Olympic Games or at a World Championship.
Upon retirement in 2007 he was acknowledged for "his pioneering work included a national program for technique development, a coach development program that was the forerunner of a national coach accreditation scheme, a program of international competition for up-and-coming rowers, improved selection procedures, and year-round training".{{cite journal|title=Retirement of Reinhold Batschi|journal=Ausport|date=Summer 2008|issue=13|page=10|url=https://www.ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/147221/AI_31790_AIS_Alumni_News_No13_LR.pdf|access-date=21 September 2017|archive-date=4 April 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170404114643/http://ausport.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0017/147221/AI_31790_AIS_Alumni_News_No13_LR.pdf|url-status=live}}
International representative coaching medal record
=Olympic Games=
Head Coach of the Australian Olympic rowing teams from 1980 to 2000. During his period as Head Coach, Australia won 16 Olympic rowing medals (four gold, five silver and seven bronze). He only directly coached teams in 1984 and 1988 Games.
=World Championships=
Head Coach in 1991 and 1999 World Championships. Results for crews coached at World Championships:
- 1983 Bronze medal – Men's eight
- 1986 Gold medal – Men's eight
- 1987 Fourth – Men's eight
- 1989 Tenth – Men's four
- 1990 Eight – Men's eight
- 1991 Tenth – Men's eight
- 1994 Fifth – Men's coxed four
- 1995 Eleventh – Men's eight
- 1997 Eighth – Men's coxless pair
- 2001 Tenth – Men's quad scull
- 2002 Fourth – Men's double scull; Fourteenth – Men's single scull
- 2003 Fourth – Men's quad scull{{cite web|title=Australia's World Championship Medallists|url=http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/australian-medallists.html|website=History of Australian Rowing website|access-date=19 September 2017|url-status=bot: unknown|archive-url=https://archive.today/20120910213739/http://www.rowinghistory-aus.info/world-championships/australian-medallists.html|archive-date=10 September 2012|df=dmy-all}}
=Commonwealth Games=
- 1986 – Gold medal – Men's eight; Bronze medal – Men's Coxed Fours
Accolades
- 1987 – OAM for his services to rowing, particularly through coaching.{{cite web|title=Reinhold Batschi|url=https://sahof.org.au/hall-of-fame-member/reinhold-batschi/|website=Sport Australia Hall of Fame website|access-date=26 September 2020}}
- 1990 – inducted in the Sport Australia Hall of Fame as a general member
- 1991 – Eunice Gill Coach Education Merit Award.{{cite news|title=Peers pay tribute to their finest coaches|url=http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122394334|access-date=28 September 2017|work=The Canberra Times|date=1 December 1991|archive-date=28 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170928103342/http://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/122394334|url-status=live}}
- 2000 – Australian Sports Medal
- 2015 – Rowing Australia renamed its National Training Centre in Canberra – The Reinhold Batschi National Training Centre{{cite web|title=Rowing Australia honours Reinhold Batschi OAM by renaming National Training Centre after former AIS and RA Director of Rowing|url=https://www.rowingaustralia.com.au/2015/10/23/rowing-australia-honours-reinhold-batschi-oam-by-renaming-national-training-centre-after-former-ais-and-ra-director-of-rowing/|website=Rowing Australia website|access-date=19 September 2017|archive-date=18 April 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190418123018/https://rowingaustralia.com.au/2015/10/23/rowing-australia-honours-reinhold-batschi-oam-by-renaming-national-training-centre-after-former-ais-and-ra-director-of-rowing/|url-status=live}}
- 2016 – Distinguished Services to International Rowing Award.{{cite web|title=Reinhold Batschi receives Distinguished Services to International Rowing Award|url=http://www.rowingaustralia.com.au/2016/12/02/reinhold-batschi-receives-distinguished-services-to-international-rowing-award/|website=Rowing Australia website|access-date=19 September 2017|archive-date=20 September 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920111406/http://www.rowingaustralia.com.au/2016/12/02/reinhold-batschi-receives-distinguished-services-to-international-rowing-award/|url-status=live}}
- Life Member Rowing Australia{{cite web|title=Life Members|url=https://www.rowingaustralia.com.au/about-rowing-australia/life-members/|website=Rowing Australia website|access-date=19 September 2017|archive-date=20 August 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170820111307/http://www.rowingaustralia.com.au/about-rowing-australia/life-members/|url-status=live}}
References
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External links
- {{Sport Australia Hall of Fame|reinhold-batschi}}
- [http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/4539722 Reinhold Batschi interviewed by Robin Poke in the Sport oral history project, National Library of Australia, 2008]
- {{World Rowing}}
- {{Olympics.com profile|reinhold-batschi}}
- {{Olympedia}}
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Category:Olympic rowers for Romania
Category:Rowers at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Category:European Rowing Championships medalists
Category:Australian rowing coaches
Category:Olympic coaches for Australia
Category:Australian Institute of Sport coaches
Category:Recipients of the Australian Sports Medal
Category:Recipients of the Medal of the Order of Australia
Category:Sportspeople from Brașov County
Category:Romanian emigrants to Australia
Category:Sport Australia Hall of Fame inductees