Kaj Hendriks

Kaj Hendriks (born August 19, 1987 in Wageningen ) is a Dutch rower who was 2013 world champion and European champion with the four-man without a helmsman .

Athletic career

The 1.97 m tall rower from the Triton rowing club in Utrecht began rowing in 2006, and has been active in the Rowing World Cup since 2009 . At the European Championships in 2010 and at the World Championships in 2010 , he finished fourth with the Dutch eighth . The following year, Hendriks switched to the four without a helmsman, who achieved sixth place at the World Championships in the line-up of Meindest Klem , Ruben Knab , Kaj Hendriks and Jozef Klaassen . At the 2012 Olympic Games , the Dutch four-man without a helmsman finished fifth with Kaj Hendriks, Boaz Meylink , Ruben Knab and Mechiel Versluis .

With Robert Lücken for Ruben Knab, the Dutch four-man won the title at the European Championships at the end of May and beginning of June 2013 in Seville, ahead of the Romanians and the Germans . Three months later, the Dutch also won the 2013 World Championships in Chungju in front of the boats from Australia and the United States. In 2014, Hendriks returned to the Dutch eighth, with which he finished eighth in front of a home crowd in Amsterdam at the 2014 World Championships . After finishing sixth at the European Championships , the Dutch eighth won the bronze medal at the 2015 World Championships .

In 2016, the Dutch eighth won the World Cup regattas in Varese and Lucerne, but only finished sixth at the European Championships . At the 2016 Olympic Games, the Dutch eight with Kaj Hendriks, Robert Lücken, Boaz Meylink, Boudewijn Röell , Olivier Siegelaar , Dirk Uittenbogaard , Mechiel Versluis, Tone Wieten and helmsman Peter Wiersum won the bronze medal behind the British world champions and the German European champions.

At the European Championships 2017 there were five rowers from last year's eighth with Meylink, Hendriks, Wieten, Versluis and Lücken, plus Roel Braas , Ruben Knab, Björn van den Ende and helmsman Diederik van Engelenburg . This new eight won the bronze medal behind the large boats from Germany and Poland.

Web links

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