Ronald Florijn
Ronald Florijn in 1983 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1961-04-21) 21 April 1961 (age 63) Leiden, the Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 94 kg (207 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | R.S.V.U. Okeanos | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ronald Florijn (born 21 April 1961) is a former rower from the Netherlands and two-time Olympic gold medallist.
Florijn won the gold medal in the men's double sculls at the 1988 Summer Olympics, alongside Nico Rienks. At the 1996 Summer Olympics, he repeated his gold medal performance winning the eight with coxswain event with the Holland Acht (Holland Eight).[1] He also won five medals at the world championships in 1978–1995 in double, four and eight-manned boat races.[2]
He studied industrial and organizational psychology at the Leiden University and then worked for Arbo Unie, one of the biggest occupational health organizations in the Netherlands.[3] Since 2004 he runs his own company. He is a knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.
References
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ronald Florijn". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020.
- ^ Ronald Florijn at World Rowing
- ^ RV Nautilus >>>> Arbo Unie Bedrijfsachten Regatta. rvnautilus.nl
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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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