Femke Dekker

Femke Dekker after returning from the Olympic Games in 2008

Femke Dekker (born July 11, 1979 in Leiderdorp ) is a former Dutch rower who was second in the 2008 Olympics in eighth and in 2009 and 2010 world champion in the four without helmsman .

Career

Dekker began rowing in 1990. She won her first international medals in the youth field; At the Junior World Championships in 1995 she received the bronze medal in double sculls with Christel Rijnten, and the following year they won the double sculls with Karin Klinge and Maartje Breeman . In 1997 Femke Dekker competed in the one and finished fifth.

At her first Olympic start in Sydney in 2000 , Dekker and Marloes Bolman competed in two without a helmsman and finished in tenth place. In the 2001 World Cup season, Dekker started in a double scull, but switched back to the belt boats for the World Rowing Championships in Lucerne . She competed in the four without a helmsman and in the eight; while the Dutch took eighth place, the four without Christine Vink , Carin ter Beek , Anneke Venema and Femke Dekker won the bronze medal behind the boats from Australia and New Zealand.

In 2002 Femke Dekker only competed internationally in the double fours, at the world championships she finished eighth. In 2003 Dekker rowed together with Froukje Wegman in double sculls, the two of them reached the B final at the World Championships and finished twelfth overall. In 2004 Femke Dekker competed in the single and took third place at the World Cup in Munich, at the Olympic Games in Athens she did not reach the A-final and finished in tenth place, as she did four years earlier.

After Dekker had finished seventh in the double sculls with Sanne Beukers at the first World Cup regatta in 2005, both moved to eighth and finished second in the next two World Cup regattas with Dekker on the beat. Before the World Rowing Championships in 2005, Sanne Beukers left the boat. In the line-up of Femke Dekker, Nienke Dekkers , Nienke Hommes , Hurnet Dekkers , Annemarieke van Rumpt , Laura Posthuma , Annemiek de Haan , Helen Tanger and helmsman Ester Workel , the boat took third place behind Australia and Romania. In 2006, Dekker took part in the four-man world championships without and finished fifth there. In 2007 Dekker was back in eight; after the World Cup victory in Munich and two third places in the other two World Cup regattas, the seventh place in the world championships did not meet expectations.

In 2008 the Dutch eighth came fourth twice in the World Cup, at the season highlight, the Olympic Games in Beijing , eighth in the line-up of Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Nienke Kingma , Roline Repelaer van Driel , Annemarieke van Rumpt, Sarah Siegelaar and Marlies Smulders , Helen Tanger and Ester Workel finished second behind eighth from the United States.

In 2009, Dekker competed in the World Cup finals on the Rotsee near Lucerne both in the four-man and eight-man, after winning the four-man she finished third in the eighth. This success repeated the Netherlands team at the World Championships in Poznan: after Chantal Achterberg , Nienke Kingma, Carline Bouw and Femke Dekker world champion had become in four, they won together with Nienke Groen , Claudia Belderbos , Jacobine Veenhoven , Sytske de Groot and tax wife Anne Schellekens Bronze in the eighth. In 2010, the eighth finished second at the World Cup in Bled and second at the European Championships, while the boat came fifth at the World Championships in New Zealand; in the foursome without defending Achterberg, Kingma, Bouw and Dekker their title from the previous year. At the 2011 World Championships in Bled, the Dutch eighth took fifth place again, the four-man without in the new line-up of Wianka van Dorp , Olivia van Rooijen , Elisabeth Hogerwerf and Femke Dekker received the bronze medal.

The 1.86 m tall Femke Dekker started during her studies for Nereus Amsterdam , later the marketing specialist rowed for the rowing club Die Leythe .

Web links

• Femke Dekker in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Femke Dekker at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )