Laurien Vermulst

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Laurien Jacqueline Maria Vermulst (born June 14, 1960 in 's-Hertogenbosch ) is a former Dutch rower who won six world championship medals in lightweight rowing.

Athletic career

The 1.74 m tall Laurien Vermulst competed at the 1983 World Championships in double sculls and finished sixth. Two years later, she started at the 1985 World Championships in the lightweight single and reached tenth place. In 1987 at the World Championships in Copenhagen , she and Ellen Meliesie finished fifth in the lightweight double scull with over twenty seconds behind the Canadian world champions and six seconds behind the third-placed rowers from the United States. The following year, at the World Championships in Milan, Vermulst and Meliesie won three seconds ahead of the French and four seconds ahead of the British.

In 1989 Vermulst returned to the lightweight single. At the World Championships in Bled , she won the bronze medal three and a half seconds behind Kristine Karlson from the United States and one and a half seconds behind the Belgian Rita Defauw . In 1990 the World Championships in Tasmania did not take place until the end of October / beginning of November. In the lightweight single, Danish Mette Bloch Jensen won two seconds ahead of Laurien Vermulst, and Rita Defauw won the bronze medal six seconds behind. At the 1991 World Championships in Vienna, New Zealander Philippa Baker won the bronze medal with almost two and a half seconds ahead of Vermulst, 0.76 seconds behind the Dutch woman.

Since lightweight rowing only became an Olympic discipline in 1996, Vermulst switched to the Dutch quad scull in 1992. Laurien Vermulst, Marjan Pentenga , Anita Meiland and Harriet van Ettekoven took third place behind the Germans and Romanians in the run-up and reached the final with a second place behind the US boat. In the final, the Germans won ahead of the Romanians and the boat from the United Team . Seven seconds behind, the Dutch women fought fourth place with 0.25 seconds ahead of the boat from the United States, in which Kristine Karlson, a lightweight rower, also took part.

1993 Laurien Vermulst rowed again in the lightweight single at the World Championships in Račice u Štětí . It was won by the Canadian Michelle Darvill with four seconds ahead of Vermulst, one second behind Mette Bloch Jensen won bronze. At the 1994 World Championships in Indianapolis , Laurien Vermulst won her fourth silver medal in the lightweight single, this time she was one and a half seconds behind the Romanian Constanța Burcică . 1995 Vermulst returned to the lightweight double scull and finished sixth with Ellen Meliesie at the World Championships in Tampere . They also took sixth place the following year at the Olympic premiere of lightweight rowing at the Olympic Games in Atlanta . In 1999 Laurien Vermulst took sixth place in the lightweight double scull at the World Championships in St. Catharines .

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 1987 lightweight double scull final at worldrowing.com
  2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 508
  3. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 840f
personal data
SURNAME Guess, Laurien
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Vermulst, Laurien Jacqueline Maria (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 14, 1960
PLACE OF BIRTH 's-Hertogenbosch