Roline Repelaer van Driel

Roline Repelaer van Driel
Personal information
Born (1984-07-28) 28 July 1984 (age 40)
Amsterdam
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Eight
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Eight
European Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 2010 Montemor-o-Velho Eight

Roline Repelaer van Driel (born 28 July 1984 in Amsterdam) is a rower from the Netherlands.[1] She started rowing as a student, at U.S.R. "Triton" rowing club in Utrecht.

Repelaer van Driel took part in the World Championships of 2006 in the fours finishing fifth in Eton. A year later at the World Championships in Munich she was part of the eights and became 7th.[1] That same year they won the World Rowing Cup event in Amsterdam and became third in both Lucerne and Linz.[1]

She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Nienke Kingma, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel, and the team won the silver medal.[1][2] At the 2012 Summer Olympics the Dutch women's eight team that van Driel was part of won the bronze medal.[2]

  1. ^ a b c d Athlete biography: Roline Repelaer van Driel, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008
  2. ^ a b "Roline Repelaer van Driel Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 August 2015.