Pepijn Aardewijn

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Pepijn Aardewijn (* 15. June 1970 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch lightweight - rowers , the 1996 Olympic silver medalist, lightweight double sculls was.

Athletic career

The 1.89 m tall Pepijn Aardewijn won the 1990 lightweight double scull at the Match des Seniors , a forerunner of the U23 World Championships , and in 1991 he won the lightweight single . In adult class Aardewijn occupied in the 1991 World Championships in eleventh place with the lightweight quadruple sculls . In 1992 Aardewijn won the U23 age group at the Nations Cup in a single with no weight limit. At the world championships without age limit he won the silver medal behind the Dane Jens Ernst Mohr in the lightweight single . The following year, the British Peter Haining won the World Championships in Račice u Štětí ahead of the Australian Stephen Hawkins , Aardewijn won the bronze medal. In 1994 in Indianapolis , Aardewijn rowed to seventh place.

In 1995 he formed a lightweight double scull with Maarten van der Linden , 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.

In 1997 Aardewijn competed in the lightweight single and finished sixth at the world championships . 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.

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Footnotes

  1. ↑ 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 Aardewijn, Pepijn
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch rower
DATE OF BIRTH June 15, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam