Marit Bouwmeester - Wikipedia
- ️Fri Jun 17 1988
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| Full name | Marit Bouwmeester | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 17 June 1988 (age 36) Warten, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Class | Laser Radial | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Marit Bouwmeester (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈmaːrɪd ˈbʌuˌmeːstər]; born 17 June 1988) is a sailor from the Netherlands.[1][2]
Bouwmeester won the gold medal in the Laser Radial class in the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro and again in the Laser Radial class at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympics, and the silver medal[3][4][5][6] at the 2012 Summer Olympics in Weymouth. In 2017, she won the World Sailor of the Year Award. She competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo 2021, competing in Laser Radial and winning the bronze medal.[7]
Her two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal make her the most successful female sailor at the Summer Olympics.
References
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- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Marit Bouwmeester". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 11 June 2017. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ "Marit Bouwmeester". Linkedin.com. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ Rob Hodgetts (6 August 2012). "Olympics sailing: China's Xu Lijia pips Marit Bouwmeester to gold". BBC. Archived from the original on 9 August 2012. Retrieved 13 February 2014.
- ^ "Nederlandse deelnemers Londen 2012". Zeilen.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 18 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Deelnemers uit Nederland". Zoekenvindalles.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 19 March 2016. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "World Sailing: London 2012 Results centre". World Sailing. Archived from the original on 27 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ^ "Sailing: BOUWMEESTER Marit". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 July 2021. Retrieved 27 July 2021.
External links
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- Marit Bouwmeester at World Sailing
- Marit Bouwmeester at Olympics.com
- Marit Bouwmeester at Olympic.org (archived)
- Marit Bouwmeester at Olympedia
- Marit Bouwmeester at NOC*NSF (in Dutch) (English translation)
- Marit Bouwmeester at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
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