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Karolien Florijn (born 6 April 1998) is a Dutch rower. She was a member of the Dutch coxless four, along with Ellen Hogerwerf, Ymkje Clevering and Veronique Meester, that won an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo 2020.[1][2] The same crew was a three-time European Champion (in 2019, 2020 and 2021) and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Florijn returned to the single sculls in 2022, winning the overall World Rowing Cup trophy and winning the gold medal at the European Championships in Munich.[3][4]

Karolien Florijn

Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1998-04-06) 6 April 1998 (age 24)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Rowing
Event(s)	Coxless four, eights, single sculls, quadruple sculls
Club	Nereus
Medal record Women's rowing Representing the  Netherlands Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Coxless four World Championships 2022 Račice Single sculls 2019 Ottensheim Coxless four 2018 Plovdiv Quadruple sculls European Championships 2019 Lucerne Coxless four 2020 Poznań Coxless four 2021 Varese Coxless four 2022 Munich Single sculls 2017 Račice Eight 2018 Glasgow Quadruple sculls

Rowing family

She is the daughter of Ronald Florijn, who won gold at the 1988 Summer Olympics in the double sculls and gold at the 1996 Summer Olympics in the eight and Antje Rehaag, another Olympic rower.[5] One of her brothers, Finn, is also an Olympic rower, although had to withdraw before the repechage because he had contracted COVID-19.[6]

References

External links

• Karolien Florijn at World Rowing
• Karolien Florijn at Olympedia

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