Nico Rienks

Nicolaas " Nico " Hessel Rienks ( born 1 February 1962 in Tiel ) is a former Dutch rower. He took 1988 to 2000 at the Olympics in part and in 1988 and 1996 Olympic champion.

Rienks 1986 was made ​​with the Dutch sculls fifth at the World Championships. In 1987 he came into office in one and had occupied in Duisburg at the World Cup first place in Lucerne Rienks party has become. In 1988, he joined the Olympic Games in Seoul together with Ronald Florijn to the double sculls. After the Bulgarian world champion had missed the finals, there was no clear favorite, Rienks and Florijn won the race at the end of relatively clear before the Swiss Beat Schwerzmann and Ueli floor man. 1989 Rienks and Florijn in the World Cup second behind the Norwegian boat.

1991 Rienks went to Henk -Jan Zwolle and became world champion in double sculls. At the Olympic Games in Barcelona in 1992, the two won bronze behind the Australians and the Austrians.

After 1992 Rienks, Zwolle and Florijn changed from the Skullern to the rowers and it began a rollercoaster project. 1994 behind the U.S. and Germany in 1995 behind the roller the Dutch was eighth, respectively Vice World Champion. 1996 won the Dutch aft the pre-Olympic regatta in Duisburg and Lucerne quite clearly. At the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta Roller won clearly ahead of the aft Germany. Rienks and Florijn had won their second Olympic gold medal. Four years later, sat with Nico Rienks and Niels van der Zwan, two members of the 1996 gold rowing eight in the boat, in Sydney missed the A- finals at the 2000 Olympic Games.

Nico Rienks is the most successful Dutch rowers at all. He was decorated by the Dutch Rowing Federation with the honorary membership. The International Rowing Federation drew Rienks 2004 with the Thomas Keller Medal.