Lisa Westerhof

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Lisa Westerhof
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Westerhof at Holland Heineken House 2012
Personal information
Full nameLisa Laetitia Westerhof
NationalityDutch
Born (1981-11-02) 2 November 1981 (age 41)
De Bilt, Netherlands
Height1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Sailing career
Class(es) 470 female
Medal record
Sailing
Representing Flag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Olympic Games Olympic rings without rims.svg
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2012 Weymouth Women's 470
470 World Championships
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2009 Copenhagen Women's 470
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg2010 The Hague Women's 470
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg2002 Cagliari Women's 470
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2012 Barcelona Women's 470
Optimist World Championship
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg1996 Langebaan Optimist
Updated on 13 February 2014.

Lisa Laetitia Westerhof (born 2 November 1981, in De Bilt) is a sailor from the Netherlands. [1] [2] [3] Westerhof represented her country at the Optimist World Championship in 1995 and 1996, becoming only the second girl to win the championship outright.

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She sailed at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. With crew Margriet Matthijsse took Westerhof 9th place as helmsman in the Dutch Women's 470. [4] [5] [6] Westerhof's second Olympic appearance was during the 2012 Olympics in Weymouth again as helmsman in the Women's 470. [7] [8] [9] Now with Lobke Berkhout as crew Westerhof took the Bronze.

Professional life

Westerhof lives in Scheveningen, studied economics at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, and is a First Officer on the Boeing 737 for Air France KLM. [10]

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