Aurelia-Maxima Janzen

Aurelia-Maxima Katharina Janzen
Personal information
Born (2003-12-27) 27 December 2003[1]
Sport
CountrySwitzerland
SportRowing
Event
Single sculls
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Switzerland
European Championships
Silver medal – second place2023 BledSingle sculls
World U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2023 PlovdivSingle sculls
Gold medal – first place2025 PoznańSingle sculls
Silver medal – second place2021 RačiceSingle sculls
Silver medal – second place2022 VareseSingle sculls
Silver medal – second place2024 St. CatharinesSingle sculls
European U23 Championships
Gold medal – first place2022 HeindonkSingle sculls
Gold medal – first place2023 KrefeldSingle sculls
Gold medal – first place2024 EdirneSingle sculls
Gold medal – first place2025 RačiceSingle sculls
Silver medal – second place2021 KruszwicaSingle sculls
World U19 Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 PlovdivSingle sculls
European U19 Championships
Gold medal – first place2021 MunichSingle sculls

Aurelia-Maxima Katharina Janzen (born 27 December 2003) is a Swiss rower. She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Career

She raced her first U23 champs aged 17 years-old. She won a gold at the 2021 World Rowing Junior Championships.[2] She won gold at the 2022 European Rowing U23 Championships, and two silvers at the 2021 and 2022 World Rowing U23 Championships, all in the single scull.[3][4]

She won the 2023 German Championships in Brandenburg.[3] She won a silver medal at the 2023 European Rowing Championships in Bled, and also competed in 2024 in Szeged.[5]

She secured a place at the Olympic Games with her performance in Lucerne in May 2024.[6] She competed in the single sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics, qualifying for the quarter finals.[7]

At the World U23 Championships in Poland in July 2025, she won the single sculls by over 10 seconds from Greece’s Eleni Diavati and Australian Romy Cantwell.[8]

Personal life

She has dual citizenship of Switzerland and Germany. She favours the use of old fashioned Macon blades.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "AURELIA-MAXIMA KATHARINA JANZEN". World Rowing. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  2. ↑ "JUNIOR WORLD CHAMPIONS ARE CROWNED FOR 2021 AFTER MISSING OUT LAST YEAR". World Rowing. 15 August 2021. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  3. 1 2 3 "Swiss Rowing Selects". row-360.com. 20 April 2003. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  4. ↑ Mainland, Fergus (18 July 2023). "2023 World Rowing Under 23 Championships – Women's Openweight Sculling Preview". juniorrowingnews. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  5. ↑ "Day two in Szeged at the 2024 European Rowing Championships". Row360. 24 April 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  6. ↑ Wernas, Timon (25 May 2024). "FOPQR: MEN'S FOUR AND AURELIA-MAXIMA JANZEN SECURE TICKETS FOR PARIS". lucerneregatta. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  7. ↑ "Aurelia-Maxima Janzen rows confidently into the quarter-finals". bluewin.ch. 27 July 2024. Retrieved 28 July 2024.
  8. ↑ Gorman, Liam. "Hulk Hogan hailed as Irish rowing duo Donagh Claffey and Martin O'Grady claim bronze medal at World U23 Championships". Independent.ie. Retrieved 27 July 2025.