Marshall Godschalk (born 28 February 1984 in

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) is a

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from the

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. Godschalk started rowing in 2000 and made his international debut at the 2005 Under-23 World Championships in

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with a fifth place in the lightweight fours together with Pieter Rom Colthoff, Wim Bakker and Samuel Alberga. In 2006 he was part of the Dutch lightweight eights with Roeland Lievens, Marten Bosma, Jaap Schouten, Kaspar van den Brink, Peter Kooren, Matthijs van Gool, Samuel Alberga and cox Michiel Maas. They finished at a fourth position at the

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and rowed to the sixth position at the World Championships in

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, where Van Gool was replaced by Gerard Harenberg. Without any success he tried to row some World Cups in the lightweight fours again in 2007, but was selected again for the lightweight eights team for the World Championships. The team further existing of Tom van den Broek, Pieter Bottema, Wolter Blankert, Dennis Beemsterboer,

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, Arnoud Greidanus, Alwin Snijders and cox Peter Wiersum became World Champion in

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. For the 2008 season he rowed with Greidanus, Snijders and

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to an eight place at the World Cup in Munich. After they finished ninth in Luzern, Greidanus was replaced by Paul Drewes and in

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they rowed to a fifth place, which meant qualification for the

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. At the

, they participated in the Men's Lightweight Coxless Four and qualified for the Final A, where they finished 6th.

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1984 births Living people Dutch male rowers Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Curaçao sportsmen Sportspeople from Willemstad {{Curaçao-sport-bio-stub