Melvin Twellaar
Dutch rower (born 1996)
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Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1996-12-23) 23 December 1996 (age 27) Den Horn, Netherlands[1] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Melvin Twellaar (born 23 December 1996) is a Dutch rower – an Olympian and a 2023 world champion. With Stef Broenink, he won the silver medal at the 2020 Summer Olympics in the double sculls event.[2][3] He was still rowing the double scull with Broenink when they won gold in that boat at the 2023 World Rowing Championships.
References
- ^ Elderman, Henk (15 July 2021). "Roeier Twellaar wil op zout water in Tokio medaille pakken". RTV Noord (in Dutch). Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Profile – Tokyo 2020 Olympics". olympic.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ^ Tennery, Amy (28 July 2021). "Rowing-Netherlands, China win in world best times in speedy day of competition". Reuters. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
External links
- Melvin Twellaar at World Rowing
- Melvin Twellaar at Olympics.com
- Melvin Twellaar at Olympedia
- Melvin Twellaar at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
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World champions – Men's double sculls
- 1962: (René Duhamel, Bernard Monnereau)
- 1966: (Melchior Bürgin, Martin Studach)
- 1970: (Jørgen Engelbrecht, Niels Henry Secher)
- 1974: (Christof Kreuziger, Uli Schmied)
- 1975: (Alf Hansen, Frank Hansen)
- 1977: (Chris Baillieu, Michael Hart)
- 1978: (Frank Hansen, Alf Hansen)
- 1979: (Alf Hansen, Frank Hansen)
- 1981: (Klaus Kröppelien, Joachim Dreifke)
- 1982: (Rolf Thorsen, Alf Hansen)
- 1983: (Thomas Lange, Uwe Heppner)
- 1985: (Thomas Lange, Uwe Heppner)
- 1986: (Alberto Belgeri, Igor Pescialli)
- 1987: (Daniel Yordanov, Vasil Radev)
- 1989: (Rolf Thorsen, Lars Bjønness)
- 1990: (Arnold Jonke, Christoph Zerbst)
- 1991: (Nico Rienks, Henk-Jan Zwolle)
- 1993: (Samuel Barathay, Yves Lamarque)
- 1994: (Lars Bjønness, Rolf Thorsen)
- 1995: (Lars Christensen, Martin Haldbo Hansen)
- 1997: (Andreas Hajek, Stephan Volkert)
- 1998: (Andreas Hajek, Stephan Volkert)
- 1999: (Iztok Čop, Luka Špik)
- 2001: (Ákos Haller, Tibor Pető)
- 2002: (Ákos Haller, Tibor Pető)
- 2003: (Sébastien Vieilledent, Adrien Hardy)
- 2005: (Luka Špik, Iztok Čop)
- 2006: (Jean-Baptiste Macquet, Adrien Hardy)
- 2007: (Luka Špik, Iztok Čop)
- 2009: (Eric Knittel, Stephan Krüger)
- 2010: (Nathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan)
- 2011: (Nathan Cohen, Joseph Sullivan)
- 2013: (Nils Jakob Hoff, Kjetil Borch)
- 2014: (Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković)
- 2015: (Martin Sinković, Valent Sinković)
- 2017: (John Storey, Chris Harris)
- 2018: (Hugo Boucheron, Matthieu Androdias)
- 2019: (Zhang Liang, Liu Zhiyu)
- 2022: (Hugo Boucheron, Matthieu Androdias)
- 2023: (Melvin Twellaar, Stef Broenink)
This boat class is an Olympic event; see Olympic champions – Men's double sculls
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