Stefan Lurz
Stefan Lurz is a former German open water swimmer coach. He was the German national coach and resigned after allegations of sexual assault on female athletes in 2022. Life. Stefan Lurz is a trained insurance salesman and studied business administration. Lurz was assistant coach from 2000 and head coach from 2006 to 2021 at the federal open water swimming base in Würzburg. Until 2018 he was managing director of SV Würzburg 05. On February 19, 2021, after allegations that became known through a article in Der Spiegel, Lurz was initially "on vacation" from the German Swimming Association "until  further notice". Lurz then resigned as national coach. In February 2022, the district court of Würzburg issued penal orders for the sexual abuse of a competitive underage swimmer in two cases. The incidents happened in 2011 and 2012. He gets a six-month suspended sentence. Lurz also has to pay 1,500 euros to the Weißer Ring, a victim support association. As well he is not allowed to be a professional or voluntary swimming coach during the three-year probationary period. In 2006 Lurz married the swimmer Annika Liebs, from whom he divorced in 2013.