Nico Rienks
Rienks in 1988 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1962-02-01) 1 February 1962 (age 62) Tiel, the Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 96 kg (212 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Okeanos, Amsterdam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Nicolaas "Nico" Hessel Rienks (born 1 February 1962) is a former rower from the Netherlands and two-time Olympic gold medallist.[1]
Rienks won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics, alongside Ronald Florijn. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he repeated his gold medal performance winning the eight with coxswain event with the Holland Acht (Holland Eight). He also competed at the 1984 and 2000 Olympics but finished outside the podium.[1]
With Henk-Jan Zwolle he won the gold medal in the double sculls competition at the 1991 World Rowing Championships. He also won three silver medals at the world championships in 1989 (double sculls), 1994 and 1995 (eights).[2]
He was named 'Dutch Rower of the Century' and is an honorary member of the Dutch Rowing Federation.[3] In 2004, Rienks was awarded the Thomas Keller Medal by the International Rowing Federation.[4]
References
- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Nico Rienks". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ Nico Rienks at World Rowing
- ^ The Independent Rowing News Inc. (25 December 1999). "Rowing News". Rowing. The Independent Rowing News Inc.: 13. ISSN 1548-694X.
- ^ Keller Medal Award Archived 5 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine. worldrowing.com
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Preceded by | Flagbearer for Netherlands 2000 Sydney | Succeeded by |
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- 1904: John Mulcahy & William Varley (USA)
- 1920: Paul Costello & John B. Kelly Sr. (USA)
- 1924: Paul Costello & John B. Kelly Sr. (USA)
- 1928: Paul Costello & Charles McIlvaine (USA)
- 1932: Ken Myers & William Gilmore (USA)
- 1936: Jack Beresford & Dick Southwood (GBR)
- 1948: Richard Burnell & Bert Bushnell (GBR)
- 1952: Tranquilo Cappozzo & Eduardo Guerrero (ARG)
- 1956: Aleksandr Berkutov & Yuriy Tyukalov (URS)
- 1960: Václav Kozák & Pavel Schmidt (TCH)
- 1964: Oleg Tyurin & Boris Dubrovskiy (URS)
- 1968: Aleksandr Timoshinin & Anatoliy Sass (URS)
- 1972: Aleksandr Timoshinin & Gennadiy Korshikov (URS)
- 1976: Frank Hansen & Alf Hansen (NOR)
- 1980: Joachim Dreifke & Klaus Kröppelien (GDR)
- 1984: Brad Alan Lewis & Paul Enquist (USA)
- 1988: Nico Rienks & Ronald Florijn (NED)
- 1992: Peter Antonie & Stephen Hawkins (AUS)
- 1996: Agostino Abbagnale & Davide Tizzano (ITA)
- 2000: Luka Špik & Iztok Čop (SLO)
- 2004: Sébastien Vieilledent & Adrien Hardy (FRA)
- 2008: David Crawshay & Scott Brennan (AUS)
- 2012: Nathan Cohen & Joseph Sullivan (NZL)
- 2016: Martin Sinković & Valent Sinković (CRO)
- 2020: Hugo Boucheron & Matthieu Androdias (FRA)
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