- Kirsten van der Kolk
MedalGold| Beijing 2008 | LW2x [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/RO/C73/ROW122101.shtml#ROW122101 Lightweight double sculls women] ] Kirsten Irene Merian van der Kolk (born
December 18 ,1975 ,Haarlem ) is arower from theNetherlands . [http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/7/218165.shtml Athlete biography: Kirsten van der Kolk] , beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 06, 2008]Together with
Marit van Eupen she participated at the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney where they finished in sixth position in the lightweight double sculls. Four years later they took part inAthens at the2004 Summer Olympics where they won the bronze medal. After those Olympics she retired from rowing and gave birth to a child. Less than one year before the2008 Summer Olympics she decided to return and became a team again with Marit van Eupen, who became three times World Champion in the non-olympic lightweight single sculls (LW1x) during the absence of van der Kolk. In 2008 they became second in theRowing World Cup meeting inLuzern and they qualified themselves for their third Olympics. OnAugust 17 ,2008 they won Olympic Gold.References
External links
* [http://www.kirstenvanderkolk.nl Official Website]
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