Claas Mertens

Claas Mertens is a German lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 2015 [World Rowing Championships] in Aiguebelette with the lightweight men's eight. He also won ten German National Championship titles. In 2018 Mertens represented Oxford in the The [Boat Race 2018|Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race]. He was educated at Shrewsbury School then Harvard University, University of [St. Gallen] and Christ [Church, Oxford]. He is an academic researcher in the field of international [political economy].