Nico Rienks

Nicolaas ("Nico") Hessel Rienks (Tiel, 1 February 1962) is a former Olympic rowing champion. At the Olympics he did five times with it. He won Olympic Gold twice (Seoul, 1988 and 1996, Atlanta), once bronze (Barcelona, 1992), a world title (Vienna, 1991) and three times silver at World Championships. He has the best Palmares ofDutch rowers.

On 9 december 2005 from the President of got Rienks NOC * NSF Erica Terpstra to the Oval Lingotto in Turin, along with figure skater Sjoukje Dijkstra, judoka Anton Geesink and the first skater Ard Schenk Fanny Blankers-Koen Trophy awarded.

He was affiliated with R.S.V.U. Okeanos and later William III in Amsterdam, physiologist and has a private company.



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[hide] *1 Rowing career  ==Rowing Career[ Edit] == ===Career[ Edit] === ===Seoul 1988[ Edit] === With Ronald Florijn, he won gold in the men's double sculls in Seoul led by his coach Jan Klerks. This was a completely unexpected victory not only for outsiders. The coach of Rad said afterwards: "if I had known, I was, we cycled instead of in the radio studio to sit down". With this medal does the Dutch rowing, since the gold of Jan Wienese (skiff) and the silver of Harry Droog and Leendert van Dis (double Scull) in 1968, for the first time seriously on an Olympic Games.
 * 1.1Career
 * 1.2 Seoul 1988
 * 1.3 Barcelona 1992
 * 1.4 Atlanta 1996
 * 1.5 Sydney 2000
 * 2 Alpe d'HuZes 2009
 * 3 Palmares
 * 3.1 rowing (single sculls)
 * 3.2 rowing (double sculls)
 * 3.3 rowing (double-four)
 * 3.4 rowing (eight with coxswain)

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">Wooden 1989 For its association to Amsterdam, Nico Rienks, Okeanos RSVU obtained the Golden Look in the Race of Old celebrate during the Varsity of 1989. ===Barcelona 1992<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 1992 he did together with Henk-Jan Zwolle at the Olympics in Barcelona in the double Scull. Along with him, he was world champion in 1991. In Barcelona they won the only Dutch rowing participants a medal (bronze). ===Atlanta 1996<span class="mw-editsection" len="330" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p lang="en" len="503" style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">After Barcelona started Rienks and Niels van der Zwan Holland Eight to the project that resulted in a gold medal at the Atlanta Olympics. ===Sydney 2000<span class="mw-editsection" len="329" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">At the Olympics in Sydney did Nico Rienks along with the Holland eight II. He finished eighth in the small final. ==Alpe d'HuZes 2009<span class="mw-editsection" len="335" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In 2009 did Rienks to Alpe d'HuZes under the name of the Radio 2- node kranenbargprogramme Team. 4 ==Palmares<span class="mw-editsection" len="326" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Rowing (single sculls)<span class="mw-editsection" len="332" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Rowing (double sculls)<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Rowing (double-four)<span class="mw-editsection" len="339" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Rowing (eight with coxswain)<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ===
 * 1985: 9th WORLD CUP-7.11, 93
 * 1987: 8th WORLD CUP-7.53, 21
 * 1988: OS-6.21, 13
 * 1989: WORLD CUP-6.24, 68
 * 1990: 8th WORLD CUP 7.35, 86
 * 1991: WORLD CUP-6.06, 14
 * 1992: OS-6.22, 82
 * 1983: 8th WORLD CUP-6.01, 15
 * 1984: 9th OS-6.12, 41
 * 1986: 5th WORLD CUP-5.53, 62
 * 1993: 5th WORLD CUP-5.42, 79
 * 1994: WORLD CUP-5.25, 10
 * 1995: WORLD CUP-5.55, 54
 * 1996: OS-5.42, 74
 * 1999: 4th World Cup I-5.46, 49
 * 1999: World Cup III-5.26, 58
 * 1999: 5th WORLD CUP-6.10, 54
 * 2000: World Cup I-5.59, 25
 * 2000: 8th World Cup III-5.42, 29
 * 2000: 8th OS-5.36, 63