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Born | Delft, the Netherlands | 17 April 1969|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Delftsche Studenten-Roeivereeniging LAGA | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Eeke Geertruida van Nes (born 17 April 1969) is a retired rower from the Netherlands. She won three Olympic medals, a bronze in the double sculls in 1996, with Irene Eijs, and two silver medals in 2000, in eights and double sculls. [1] Between 1995 and 1999 she won four medals at the world championships. [2]
Van Nes is a daughter of the rowers Hadriaan van Nes and Meike de Vlas [3] and granddaughter of football player Jan Thomée. [1]
Irene Elisabeth Maria Eijs is a retired rower from the Netherlands, who won a bronze medal in the women's double sculls at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, United States alongside Eeke van Nes.
Hadriaan van Nes is a retired rower from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1968 Summer Olympics, alongside Roderick Rijnders and Herman Suselbeek. He won a world title in 1966 and a European bronze medal in 1965 in this event. His daughter Eeke van Nes also became an Olympic rower.
Jutta Lau is a German rower, who competed for the SG Dynamo Potsdam / Sportvereinigung (SV) Dynamo. She won the medals at the international rowing competitions.
Valeria Răcilă is a retired Romanian rower. She first competed in double and quadruple sculls, winning bronze medals at the 1980 Olympics and 1979 and 1981 world championships. She then changed to single sculls, and won an Olympic gold medal in 1984 and silver medals at the world championships in 1982 and 1985.
Marit van Eupen is a rower from the Netherlands.
Kirsten Irene Merian van der Kolk is a rower from the Netherlands.
Femke Dekker is a Dutch rower from the Netherlands.
Nienke Kingma is a rower from the Netherlands.
Annemarieke van Rumpt is a rower from the Netherlands.
Annekatrin Thiele is a German rower. She competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal in double sculls with Christiane Huth. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she again won a silver medal, this time in the women's quadruple sculls. She has also twice won World Championship gold, both times in the women's quadruple sculls. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she competed in women's quadruple sculls competition in which the German team won the gold medal.
Pieta Roberta van Dishoeck is a retired rower from the Netherlands who won two Olympic medals during her career. She claimed the silver medal in the women's double sculls, alongside Eeke van Nes, and in the women's eight with coxswain in the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.
Huang Wenyi is a female Chinese rower. She is a World and Olympic medallist.
Victoria Thornley is a Welsh rower. She won a silver medal for Great Britain with Katherine Grainger in the women's double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics. She was also a member of the Great Britain team that finished fifth in the women's eight at the 2012 Summer Olympics, and finished fourth in the single sculls at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Meike de Vlas was a Dutch rower who won a silver medal in the single sculls at the European Championships in 1964. Her husband Hadriaan van Nes and daughter Eeke van Nes are Olympic medalists in rowing.
Gianina Elena van Groningen is a Romanian rower. She is twice world champion in the women's lightweight double sculls event winning back-to-back titles in 2017 and 2018 for Romania. She competed in the women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2016, 2020, and 2024 Summer Olympics, where she won a silver medal paired with Ionela Cozmiuc.
Wang Yanni is a Chinese lightweight rower.
Meike van Driel is a Dutch rower. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
Ulla Jensen is a Danish rower. In the 1990 World Rowing Championships, she won a gold medal in the women's lightweight double sculls event. She also won a bronze medal in the same event in the 1991 World Rowing Championships.
Roos de Jong is a Dutch rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the double sculls event together with Lisa Scheenaard, whom she has rowed with since 2017. She has also won a medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships.
Stefania Gobbi is an Italian female rower twice bronze medal winner at senior level at the European Rowing Championships. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.