Dordrecht
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rower
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.Athlete biography: Geert Cirkel , beijing2008.cn, ret: 6 August 2008 He competed at two Olympic Games.
Cirkel started rowing in 1994. He mainly rows in the fours and occasionally participates in the
quadruple scull
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s. In the quadruple sculls he won a silver medal at the 2001 World Championships in
Luzern
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. In 2003 he quit rowing competitively, but after a two-year stop he returned to the sport in 2005, starting in the fours. In the Luzern World Cup he and his team mates finished in second position and they got the same result and a silver medal at the World Championships in
Gifu
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. In 2006 he got a second place in Luzern and a third place in
Munich
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during World Cups as well as a bronze medal at the World Championships in Eton.
After two silver medals at the
Linz
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In 2009, it was a European Capital ...
and
Amsterdam
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World Cups in 2007 he added a gold in Luzern. At the World Championships that year in Munich he won another bronze medal. With a World Cup win in
Poznań
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and a second place in Luzern in 2008, Cirkel, alongside
Jan-Willem Gabriëls
Jan-Willem Gabriëls (born 21 January 1979, in Amsterdam) is a rower from the Netherlands.
,
Matthijs Vellenga
Matthijs Vellenga (born 29 October 1977 in Grijpskerk) is a rower from the Netherlands.
and
Gijs Vermeulen
Gijs Vermeulen (born 7 May 1981 in Amsterdam) is a rower from the Netherlands.2008 Summer Olympics in the fours.