Sarah Siegelaar

Sarah Siegelaar after returning from the Olympic Games in 2008

Sarah Elaine Siegelaar (born October 4, 1981 in Heemstede ) is a former Dutch rower who won two Olympic medals in eighth .

Siegelaar only started rowing at the competitive level in 1999. In 2001 she won the Dutch championship eighth with the boat of the Amsterdam Student Union Nereus . In 2002, she took fifth place in a two-man team at the U23 world regatta . In 2003 she took part in the world championships in the adult class for the first time. In the four without a helmsman , she won the silver medal at the World Championships in Milan together with Helen Tanger , Laura Posthuma and Annemarieke van Rumpt . In 2004 Tanger, van Rumpt and Siegelaar switched to the Dutch eighth and achieved third place with this boat at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, behind the boats from Romania and the United States. It wasn't until 2007 that Siegelaar returned to the Dutch eighth after a long break. After a victory at the World Cup in Amsterdam and two third places in Lucerne and Linz, the eighth finished only seventh place at the 2007 World Rowing Championships . In 2008, after two fourth places in the World Cup in the Olympic final in Beijing , the eighth managed a rather surprising second place behind the Americans and ahead of the Romanians.

Sarah Siegelaar's younger brother Olivier Siegelaar also rowed eighth for the Dutch Olympic team.

Web links

• Sarah Siegelaar in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
• Portraits of the Dutch eight (Dutch)