Rita Defauw

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Rita Defauw (* 23. May 1963 in Ghent ) is a former Belgian lightweight - rower . She won four medals in the lightweight single at world championships.

Athletic career

The 1.65 m tall Rita Defauw from the rowing and sports community KRSG from Ghent competed for the first time in a major international championship at the 1985 World Championships in Hazewinkel and took fourth place behind the Australian Adair Ferguson , the Romanian Maria Micşa and the American Ann Martin . The following year Defauw won her first international medal at the World Championships in Nottingham when she won the silver medal behind Maria Sava from Romania. In 1987 at the world championships in Copenhagen Sava won again before Defauw.

Since lightweight rowing only became Olympic in 1996, lightweight rowers first had to compete in the open class if they wanted to participate in the Olympics. Rita Defauw competed at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul in a single with no weight limit and rowed to ninth place. At the 1989 World Championships in Bled , Rita Defauw competed in the lightweight single again and received the silver medal behind the American Kristine Karlson . At the 1990 World Championships in Tasmania , the Danish Mette Bloch Jensen won ahead of Laurien Vermulst from the Netherlands, at her last major international start Rita Defauw received a bronze medal after three silver medals.

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personal data
SURNAME Defauw, Rita
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian rower
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Ghent