Annelies Bredael

Annelies Bredael ( born June 15, 1965 in Willebroek ) is a former Belgian rower in one, the Belgian Sportswoman of the Year in 1992.

In 1988 Bredael first time in the Olympic Games and took part with the Belgian quadruple sculls sixth place. In 1989 she rose to the One and became an instant eighth at the World Championships. In 1991 they occupied at the World Championships in Vienna in third place behind the Canadian Silken Laumann and the Romanian Elisabeta Lipa. At the 1992 Olympics in Barcelona Bredael won the second heat and finished in second semi-final second place behind Laumann, in the final won Lipa before Bredael and Laumann.

1993 Bredael won the World Cup, but received no medal at the World Championships. In 1994 she won the bronze medal behind the Dane Trine Hansen and German Kathrin Boron at the World Championships in Indianapolis. Your third World Cup bronze medal after 1991 and 1994, won Bredael 1995 Finnish ' Tampere behind the Swede Maria Brandin Silken Laumann and. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Bredael did not reach the A-final and finished at the end of the seventh.

The rower of TRT Hazewinkel is a mother of three and still active as a rower. At the age of 40 years, she joined the Belgian championships along with Ann Haesebrouck, which in 1984 won bronze at the Olympic Games in One. Haesebrouck and Bredael 1988 sat together in the quadruple sculls.