Mechiel Versluis

Mechiel Versluis (born July 29, 1987 in Ooststellingwerf ) is a Dutch rower who was 2013 world champion and European champion with the four-man without a helmsman .

Athletic career

The 1.98 m tall rower from the Amsterdam student rowing association RSVU Okeanos began rowing in 2007, and has been active in the Rowing World Cup since 2009 . At the 2010 World Championships , he finished eleventh in the four without a helmsman. 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 the line-up of Meylink, Olivier Siegelaar , Versluis and Lücken, the Dutch four reached fourth place at the 2014 European Championships . The boat also achieved the same ranking at the 2014 World Championships in front of a home crowd in Amsterdam. In 2015 the rowers of the foursome switched to the eighth. 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. In 2018, Versluis, Knab and van Engelenburg were there from the eighth of the previous year, the new eighth won the silver medal at the 2018 European Championships behind the Germany eighth and finished seventh at the World Championships . At the beginning of the 2019 season, the Dutch eighth won bronze at the 2019 European Championships in Lucerne behind the Germans and the British. At the world championships, the Germans won ahead of the Dutch and the British.

Web links

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