Marlies Smulders

Marlies Jeannette Fransisca Smulders (born February 22, 1982 in Amstelveen ) is a former Dutch rower who won two Olympic medals in eighth .

Athletic career

Marlies Smulders from Amsterdam Rowing Club RV Skoll occupied at the Junior World Championships in fourth place with the 2000 quadruple sculls . In 2002 she reached the B-final in the quadruple sculls at the world championships in the adult class and finished eighth in the overall standings. In 2003 , the double scull finished ninth. The World Cup season review 2004 began Marlies Smulders in the quadruple sculls, with whom she races World Cup reached in the first two the A-final. In the third regatta, she rowed the Dutch eight to second place behind the US boat. At the 2004 Olympic Games, the Romanians won, behind the US eight, the Dutch women won the bronze medal with Froukje Wegman , Marlies Smulders, Nienke Hommes , Hurnet Dekkers , Annemarieke van Rumpt , Annemiek de Haan , Sarah Siegelaar , Helen Tanger and taxwoman Ester Workel .

In the next two years, Marlies Smulders rowed in various boat classes in the World Cup, but was not part of the eight crew at World Championships. It was not until 2007 that she was back in the Dutch eighth, who won the B final at the 2007 World Championships and thus reached seventh place in the overall standings. In 2008 the eighth went to the A-final at the Olympic Games and won the silver medal behind the US boat with three hundredths of a second ahead of the Romanian boat. The crew of the Dutch eight from 2008 consisted of Femke Dekker , Marlies Smulders, Nienke Kingma , Roline Repelaer van Driel , Annemarieke van Rumpt, Helen Tanger, Sarah Siegelaar, Annemiek de Haan and Ester Workel.

Web links

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