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Margriet Matthijsse

Margriet Matthijsse
Personal information
Full name Margriet Matthijsse
Nationality Dutch
Born (1977-04-16) April 16, 1977 (age 40)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height 1.77 m (5.8 ft)
Sailing career
Class(es) Europe
470
Club Rotterdamsche Zeilvereeniging
Updated on 10 February 2014.

Margriet Matthijsse (born 16 April 1977, in Rotterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented her country for the first time at the 1996 Olympics in Savannah. Matthijsse took the Silver in the Europe. In the 2000 Olympics in Sydney Matthijsse took her second Silver medal again in the Europe. Matthijsse final Olympic appearance was during the 2004 Olympics in Athens. As crew in the Women's 470 with helmsman Lisa Westerhof she took 9th place.

She received the ISAF World Sailor of the Year Award in 1999.



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