Roline Repelaer van Driel

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Roline Repelaer van Driel (2008)

Roline Virginie Repelaer van Driel (born July 28, 1984 in Amsterdam ) is a former Dutch rower who won two Olympic medals in eighth .

Athletic career

Roline Repelaer van Driel from the Utrecht rowing club Triton began rowing in 2003. In 2005 she took part in the U23 World Championships and finished ninth in the two-man category without a helmsman . In 2006, she reached the A-final in the four-man category without a helmsman at the World Championships in the adult class , where she finished fifth. From 2007 she belonged to 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 taxwoman Ester Workel .

After a break in 2009, the 1.89 m tall Repelaer van Driel returned to eighth in 2010, after a silver medal behind the Romanians at the 2010 European Championships , she finished eighth at the 2010 and 2011 World Championships in each case. In her second Olympic participation, she won the bronze medal at the Olympic Games with the Dutch eighth in the line-up Jacobine Veenhoven , Nienke Kingma, Chantal Achterberg , Sytske de Groot , Roline Repelaer van Driel, Claudia Belderbos , Carline Bouw , Annemiek de Haan and helmsman Anne Schellekens 2012 .

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SURNAME Repelaer van Driel, Roline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Repelaer van Driel, Roline Virginie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch rower
DATE OF BIRTH July 28, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam