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Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 2 January 1996|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Olympic finals | Tokyo 2020 W4X | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Laila Youssifou (born 2 January 1996) is a Dutch rower and Olympic silver medallist in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 2024 Olympics. [1] [2] She also competed in the same event at the 2020 Olympics. [3]
Youssifou was born in the Netherlands to a Ghanaian father and Dutch mother. [4] She studies Engineering and Policy Analysis at the Delft University of Technology. [5]
Damir Martin is a Croatian rower. He is a three-time Olympic medallist and won silver medals at the 2012 and 2016 Olympic Games, and a bronze medal at the 2020 Olympics. Martin is also a two-time world champion, a two-time European champion, and a twelve-time World Rowing Cup champion. He won the gold medal at the World U23 Championships in 2009 and 2010. Martin is currently a member of rowing club VK Croatia, and has previously been a member of clubs Zagreb and Trešnjevka.
Carina Bär is a German rower. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she competed in the women's quadruple sculls competition in which the German team won the gold medal. She had previous won the silver medal in the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Kara Michelle Kohler is an American female crew rower. She won the bronze medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls event. She also has a World Championship gold medal in the coxless four and a World Championship bronze in the single sculls.
Adrienne Elizabeth Martelli is an American female crew rower from University Place, Washington. She took an Olympic bronze medal in 2012 and a gold medal in the 2015 World Championships.
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Zhang Ling is a Chinese rower. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Mateusz Biskup is a Polish rower. He competed at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics, in the men's quadruple sculls and men's double sculls events, respectively.
Lü Yang is a Chinese rower. She competed in the women's double sculls event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.
Ilse Paulis is a Dutch representative rower. She is a world champion, a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold medallist and has set three world's best times, two of which are standing world records as of 2021. She is racing the lightweight women's double scull with Marieke Keijser at Tokyo 2021.
Emily Craig is a British lightweight Olympic champion and three-time world champion rower.
Mathilda Kathryn R. Hodgkins-Byrne is a British rower. She won a gold medal in the double scull at the 2016 World Rowing U23 Championships. She won a bronze medal at the 2017 World Rowing Championships in Sarasota, Florida, as part of the quadruple sculls with Bethany Bryan, Jessica Leyden and Holly Nixon.
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Karolien Florijn 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. The same crew was a three-time European Champion 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. She won the single sculls event at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.
Hannah Scott is a rower from Coleraine, Northern Ireland. She has won Olympic and world championship gold medals representing Great Britain.
Finn Florijn is a Dutch rower.
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Alison Rusher is an American rower. She competed in the women's quadruple sculls event at the 2020 Summer Olympics.
Michelle Sechser is an American rower. She competed in the women's lightweight double sculls event at the 2020 Summer Olympics. She competed at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the women's lightweight double sculls event.
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