Michiel Bernhard Emiel Marie Bartman (born 19 May 1967 in

Badhoevedorp Badhoevedorp is a town in the Western Netherlands, located in the Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality of Haarlemmermeer. It has a population of around 14.455. The A9 motorway (Netherlands), Rijksweg 9 passes near the town. From 8 Augu ...

North Holland North Holland (, ) is a Provinces of the Netherlands, province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht (province), Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevola ...

) is a former

rower Rowing, often called crew in the United States, is the sport of racing boats using oars. It differs from paddling sports in that rowing oars (called blades in the United Kingdom) are attached to the boat using rowlocks, while paddles are ...

from the Netherlands, who won a total of three Olympic medals during his career. A member of the

Nereus Rowing Club The Amsterdam Student Rowing Club (ASR) Nereus, (''Dutch'' De Amsterdamsche Studenten Roeivereeniging (ASR) Nereus) is a rowing club in Amsterdam, Netherlands which was founded in 1885 by J. Schölvinck as a subsidiary organization of '' The Corps ...

from Amsterdam, he won the gold medal in Atlanta with the ''Holland Acht'' (Holland Eights), followed by silver in Sydney (Quadruple Sculls) and silver (Eights) once again in Athens. He also won three medals at the World Championships, bronze in the coxed four in 1994, silver with the ''Holland Acht'' in 1995 and silver in the Quadruple Sculls in 2001. Notably the Netherlands eight set the world record in the men's eight in Atlanta that stood until 2002. Bartman's earned notoriety within the international rowing community as a fierce competitor with a rare ability to time his best performances for the Olympic Games. After the

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Bartman retired and he became the head coach for

Vesper Boat Club The Vesper Boat Club is an amateur rowing club located at #10 Boathouse Row in the historic Boathouse Row of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Founded in 1865 as the Washington Barge Club, the club's name was changed to Vesper Boat Club in 1870. ...

in Philadelphia, United States. In December 2004 he was named ''Amsterdam Sportsman of the Year'', together with fellow rower

Diederik Simon Diederik Rudolf Simon (born 10 April 1970 in Bloemendaal, North Holland) is a rower from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country in five consecutive Summer Olympics. He won the gold medal with the ''Holland Acht'' (Holland Eight) at ...

. In 2011 he was named head coach of Radcliffe lightweight crew (Harvard University). In 2013 Bartman went on to become the head coach of the Harvard University men's lightweight crew. From 2016 to 2019, Bartman worked as head coach and men's varsity coach at Friends of Port Rowing Club on Long Island, NY. In 2019, Bartman took the position of assistant women's rowing coach at

Temple University Temple University (Temple or TU) is a public university, public Commonwealth System of Higher Education, state-related research university in Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. It was founded in 1884 by the Baptist ministe ...

References

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Harvard University Lightweight Men's Rowing
1967 births Living people Dutch male rowers Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Haarlemmermeer Rowers from North Holland Olympic medalists in rowing Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-rowing-bio-stub