Maarten van der Linden
Everwijn Johan Maarten van der Linden (* 9. March 1969 in Voorburg ) is a former Dutch lightweight - rowers , the 1996 Olympic silver medalist, lightweight double sculls was.
Athletic career
The 1.83 m tall Maarten van der Linden won the bronze medal in the lightweight double scull in 1991 at the Match des Seniors , a forerunner to the U23 World Championships . At the 1994 World Championships , he finished tenth and last with the lightweight quadruple scull . In the following year he formed a lightweight double scull with Pepijn Aardewijn , the two finished seventh at the 1995 World Championships .
At the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, competitions for lightweight rowers were on the Olympic program for the first time. 19 boats competed in the lightweight double scull. The two Dutch won the first heat. In the semifinals they finished second, 1.7 seconds behind the Swiss Markus and Michael Gier . In the final, the Swiss won three seconds ahead of the Dutch, 0.21 seconds behind the Australians Bruce Hick and Anthony Edwards won the bronze medal.
After a year break, Maarten van der Linden returned to the lightweight double scull in 1998. With Pepijn Aardewijn he finished fifth at the World Championships in Cologne , followed by eighth place in 1999 in St. Catharines . At the end of their careers, the two finished 12th at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney.
Web links
- Maarten van der Linden at Worldrowing.com ( FISA database )
- Maarten van der Linden in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 . P. 835
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Linden, Maarten van der |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Linden, Everwijn Johan Maarten van der (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch rower |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 9, 1969 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Voorburg |