Ester Workel

Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2008 BeijingWomen's eight
Bronze medal – third place2004 AthensWomen's eight
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2005 Gifu Women's eight

Ester Workel (born 18 March 1975 in Enschede) is a rowing cox from the Netherlands.[1]

With the Dutch eights she qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and she led her team mates rowing to the bronze medal.[1] They won another bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships in Gifu. In 2007, she returned to the eights in which the Dutch only became seventh at the World Championships. Earlier that year they won the Rowing World Cup in Amsterdam and they finished third in both Luzern and Linz.[1]

She qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Femke Dekker, Annemiek de Haan, Roline Repelaer van Driel, Nienke Kingma, Sarah Siegelaar, Marlies Smulders, Helen Tanger and Annemarieke van Rumpt.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 Athlete biography: Ester Workel, beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008


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