Boris Rozenberg leaves the DSV and hands over water jumping to Martin Wolfram

Boris Rozenberg is leaving the German Swimming Association (DSV) at the end of the year after twenty years and is handing over the baton to Martin Wolfram at the national diving base in Dresden. Dresdner SC announced this in a press release on Wednesday.

"The basis of my decision is purely personal. Both the DSC and the DSV need new blood. And I wish them success on this path with all my heart," explained Rozenberg, who is leaving the association at his own request and will become head coach of the Polish national team from 2024.

The native Ukrainian came to Germany in 2003, initially worked at the base in Aachen and moved to the national base in Dresden in 2011 with his two athletes Sascha Klein and son Pavlo Rozenberg. Since 2008, he has always been represented at the Olympic Games with his protégés and celebrated Olympic silver in tower synchronized diving with Sascha Klein in 2008 and Olympic bronze in board synchronized diving with Tina Punzel and Lena Hentschel in 2021. From 2006 to 2022, he and his athletes won European Championship medals every year (with only two interruptions in 2007 and 2020), including 18 gold medals. In 2022, he also led high diver Iris Schmidbauer to the European title. Since 2011, his athletes have also won six World Championship medals.

One of his most successful athletes was Wolfram, whom he led to three Olympic finals, as well as a World Cup victory and the European title from the tower in 2015. The 31-year-old seamlessly switched to the coaching profession after his career ended in 2022, completed a degree at the coaching academy in Cologne and is employed as a coach at the Olympic Training Center in Dresden. The young family man is now taking over from Rozenberg.

"Boris was probably the most important coach in my sporting career. It's a great loss that he's leaving Dresden. He was one of the best coaches we've ever had in Germany. But we want to learn from what he taught us and I want to lead my athletes to similar successes," said Wolfram.