Lisa Scheenaard

Lisa Scheenaard (born September 5, 1988 ) is a Dutch rower . In 2019 she won the world championship bronze in double sculls .

Athletic career

The 1.79 m tall Lisa Scheenaard only started rowing in 2008. She won her first international medal at the 2013 European Championships in Seville. There the German double foursome won ahead of the Dutch women Wianka van Dorp , Sophie Souwer , Lisa Scheenaard and Nicole Beukers . At the World Championships in Chungju , Scheenaard, Chantal Achterberg , Souwer and Beukers took fourth place, almost three seconds behind the third-placed Polish women. In 2014 Lisa Scheenaard moved to eighth place and finished fourth at the European Championships . At the World Championships in Amsterdam she rowed in one and finished twelfth. In 2015 Scheenaard finished seventh in the single at the European Championships and 15th in the single at the World Championships . In 2016 Lisa Scheenaard and Marloes Oldenburg took sixth place in the double scull at the European Championships in Brandenburg an der Havel . In the last qualifying regatta for the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, two double sculls were able to secure the right to start, Scheenaard and Oldenburg took fifth place.

In 2017, at the European Championships in Račice u Štětí , the Czech double scull won ahead of Scheenaard and Oldenburg. At the World Championships in Sarasota , Lisa Scheenaard reached the final in one and finished fifth. In 2018 Lisa Scheenaard rowed a double scull with Roos de Jong . The two won silver at the European Championships in Glasgow , 0.3 seconds behind the French. The two Dutch women finished fifth at the 2018 World Championships . In 2019, Scheenaard competed in the European Championships in the singles and finished sixth. Three months later at the World Championships in Linz / Ottensheim , Scheenard and de Jong competed in a double scull and won the bronze medal behind the New Zealanders and the Romanians.