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Roline Repelaer van Driel

Roline Repelaer van Driel
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Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2008 Beijing Eight
Bronze medal – third place 2012 London Eight

Roline Repelaer van Driel (born 28 July 1984 in Amsterdam) is a rower from the Netherlands. She started rowing as a student, at U.S.R. "Triton" rowing club in Utrecht.

Repelaer van Driel took part in the World Championships of 2006 in the fours finishing fifth in Eton. A year later at the World Championships in Munich she was part of the eights and became 7th. That same year they won the Rowing World Cup event in Amsterdam and became third in both Luzern and Linz.

She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Nienke Kingma, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel, and the team won the silver medal. At the 2012 Summer Olympics the Dutch women's coxed eights team that van Driel was part of won the bronze medal.


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