Karolien Florijn (born 6 April 1998) is a Dutch rower. She was a member of the Dutch coxless four, along with Ellen Hogerwerf, Ymkje Clevering and Veronique Meester, that won an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo 2020.[1][2] The same crew was a three-time European Champion (in 2019, 2020 and 2021) and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Florijn returned to the single sculls in 2022, winning the overall World Rowing Cup trophy and winning the gold medal at the European Championships in Munich.[3][4] She won the single sculls event at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.
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| Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 6 April 1998 Leiden | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Relative | Finn Florijn (brother) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Coxless four, eights, single sculls, quadruple sculls | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Nereus | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Rowing family
editShe is the daughter of Ronald Florijn, who won gold at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the double sculls and gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the eight and Antje Rehaag, former Olympic rower and 1994 world champion in the German women's eight.[5][6] One of her brothers, Finn, is also an Olympic rower, and a Paris Summer Olympics gold medalist.[7]
References
edit- ^ Pender, Kieran (28 July 2021). "'Amazing hour' of Olympic rowing produces Australian medal bonanza". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ Tennery, Amy (28 July 2021). "Rowing-Netherlands, China win in world best times in speedy day of competition". Reuters. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "Karolien Florijn". World Rowing (FISA website). Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "W4x results – Women's Quadruple Sculls" (PDF). 2018 World Rowing Championships. World Rowing. Archived (PDF) from the original on 15 September 2018. Retrieved 15 September 2018.
- ^ Van Lakerveld, Erik (14 August 2022). "A combination of good genes, bananas and huge fanaticism". De Volkskrant (in Dutch). Retrieved 16 August 2022.
- ^ "July 2022 – Karolien Florijn – World Rowing". World Rowing (FISA website). Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "Men's Quadruple Sculls - Final A results" (PDF). Olympics. 31 July 2024. Retrieved 31 July 2024.
External links
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- Karolien Florijn at World Rowing
- Karolien Florijn at Olympics.com
- Karolien Florijn at Olympedia
- Karolien Florijn at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
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