Helen Tanger
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Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Hardenberg,Netherlands | August 22, 1978|||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Women's Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||
College team | Syracuse Orange(2001) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Helen Tanger(born 22 August 1978 inHardenberg) is arowerfrom theNetherlands.[1]
Early life and education
[edit]Tanger is a graduate ofSyracuse UniversityinNew York,earning her degree in 2001.[2][3]
Athletic career
[edit]Tanger took part in the World Championships of 2003 inMilanwinning the silver medal in thefour.With the Dutcheightsshe qualified for the2004 Summer OlympicsinAthensand she and her team mates rowed to the bronze medal.[1]They won another bronze medal at the 2005 World Championships inGifu.A short trip to the double sculls in 2005 left her at the fifth position at the 2006 World Championships inEton.[1]
In 2008, she returned to the eights and she qualified for the2008 Summer OlympicsinBeijingforming a team withFemke Dekker,Annemiek de Haan,Roline Repelaer van Driel,Nienke Kingma,Sarah Siegelaar,Marlies Smulders,Annemarieke van Rumptand coxEster Workel.[1]
References
[edit]- ^abcdAthlete biography: Helen Tanger,beijing2008.cn, ret: 14 August 2008
- ^"CNY at the Olympics".The Post-Standard.18 August 2008.Retrieved15 October2009.
- ^Bambini, Cole (19 April 2021)."20 years later, SU's 2001 varsity 8 remains the best in school history".The Daily Orange.Retrieved29 December2022.
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Dutch female rowers
- Rowers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Rowers at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic rowers for the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- People from Hardenberg
- Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Dutch women
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Sportspeople from Overijssel
- Syracuse Orange women's rowers
- Dutch rowing biography stubs