Amanda Polk

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Amanda Polk (born August 2, 1986 in Pittsburgh ) is an American rower , Olympic champion and five-time world champion in eight .

Polk started rowing in 2002 and competed in the Junior World Championships in 2004 , where she finished seventh with the American eighth. In 2008 she won eighth place in the U23 world regatta . At the 2009 World Rowing Championships in Poznan, she finished second behind the boat from the Netherlands together with Jamie Redman , Elle Logan and Esther Lofgren in the four-man without helmsman . In 2010 the rowers moved to eighth and fought for the title at the World Championships in New Zealand with the cast Anna Goodale , Amanda Polk, Jamie Redman, Taylor Ritzel , Esther Lofgren, Elle Logan, Meghan Musnicki , Katherine Glessner and helmsman Mary Whipple .

In 2011, Amanda Polk tried her hand at the first World Cup regatta in Munich-Oberschleißheim with Erin Cafaro in a two-man race without a helmsman and came in fourth. At the World Cup final in Lucerne, both sat in the eighth, which also won this regatta. After changes to the line-up, the American eighth also defended the title at the World Championships in Bled , with Esther Lofgren, Zsuzsanna Francia , Meghan Musnicki, Taylor Ritzel, Jamie Redman, Amanda Polk, Caroline Lind , Elle Logan and Mary Whipple in the winning boat .

At the 2013 World Rowing Championships in Chungju , she won the gold medal in eighth as well as at the 2014 and 2015 World Championships . The US eighth's winning streak, which has been going on since 2006, also continued at the 2016 Olympic Games , when Emily Regan , Kerry Simmonds , Amanda Polk, Lauren Schmetterling , Tessa Gobbo , Meghan Musnicki, Elle Logan, Amanda Elmore and helmsman Katelin Snyder in front of the British women and the Romanians won.

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SURNAME Polk, Amanda
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American rower
DATE OF BIRTH 2nd August 1986
PLACE OF BIRTH Pittsburgh