Carling Zeeman

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Carling Zeeman rowing
Full name Carling Zeeman
nation CanadaCanada Canada
birthday May 27, 1991
place of birth HamiltonCanada
size 187 cm
Weight 85 kg
Career
discipline Rowing / Skull
society Sudbury Rowing Club
Trainer Volker Nolte
National squad since 2012
status active
Medal table
World championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 0 × bronze
Pan American Games 2 × gold 0 × silver 0 × bronze
U23 world championships 0 × gold 1 × silver 1 × bronze
FISA logo World championships
silver 2013 Chungju Double fours
Pan American Games logo Pan American Games
gold 2015 Toronto One
gold 2015 Toronto Double fours
FISA logo U23 world championships
bronze 2012 Trakai One
silver 2013 Linz One
Last change: October 22, 2016

Carling Zeeman (born May 27, 1991 in Hamilton , Canada ) is a Canadian rower .

Career

Zeeman began rowing at Laurentian University in 2009 at the age of 18 . She had previously played other sports, including volleyball, running, and inline skating. Just two years after starting rowing, she won the U23 singles competition at the great Royal Canadian Henley Regatta in St. Catharines .

At the international level, she made her debut at the U23 World Championships in 2012 in Trakai, Lithuania in the one, where she won the bronze medal. In the following year she won the silver medal at the junior world championships and was also used for the first time at the rowing world cup and the world championships in the open age group. In double fours with Emily Cameron , Katharine Goodfellow and Antje von Seydlitz-Kurzbach , she won a silver medal behind the German selection. In 2014 the team finished sixth in the same line-up at the World Championships in Amsterdam.

Carling Zeeman then focused on the one again. At the 2015 World Championships she reached the final and qualified sixth for the Canadian starting place for the 2016 Olympic Games. She also won two gold medals at the Pan American Games in singles and in quadruples (with Goodfellow, von Seydlitz-Kurzbach and Kerry Shaffer ). In the 2016 season, Zeeman was nominated for the Summer Olympics . In the single competition , she finished tenth among 32 starters.

Zeeman starts for the Sudbury Rowing Club in Greater Sudbury . At a height of 1.87 m, her competition weight is around 85 kg. She is trained by Volker Nolte .

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