Roline Repelaer van Driel (born 28 July 1984 in

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) is a

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from the

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.Athlete biography: Roline Repelaer van Driel
beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008 She started rowing as a student, at U.S.R. "Triton" rowing club in Utrecht. Repelaer van Driel took part in the World Championships of 2006 in the fours finishing fifth in Eton. A year later at the World Championships in

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she was part of the eights and became 7th. That same year they won the

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event in Amsterdam and became third in both

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and

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. She qualified for the

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with the Dutch eights forming a team with

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, Annemiek de Haan, Nienke Kingma, Annemarieke van Rumpt, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and cox Ester Workel, and the team won the silver medal. At the

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the Dutch women's eight team that van Driel was part of won the bronze medal.

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1984 births Living people Dutch female rowers Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Rowers from Amsterdam Olympic medalists in rowing Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics European Rowing Championships medalists 20th-century Dutch women 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-rowing-bio-stub