Ilse Paulis

{{Infobox sportsperson

| name = Ilse Paulis

| image = Ilse Paulis Ruder-EM 2016 35 (cropped).JPG

| caption = Ilse Paulis in 2016

| nationality = Dutch

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1993|7|30|df=y}}{{Cite web|url=https://www.olympic.org/ilse-paulis|title=Ilse PAULIS - Olympic | Netherlands|date=April 13, 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210413052306/https://www.olympic.org/ilse-paulis |archive-date=2021-04-13 }}

| birth_place = Leiderdorp, Netherlands

| height = 1.73 m

| weight = 62 kg

| country = Netherlands

| sport = Rowing

| event = Lightweight double sculls, Lightweight quadruple sculls

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Ilse Paulis (born 30 July 1993) is a Dutch representative rower. She is a world champion, a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold medallist and has set three world's best times, two of which are standing world records as of 2021. She is racing the lightweight women's double scull with Marieke Keijser at Tokyo 2021.{{Cite web|url=https://worldrowing.com/2021/06/07/tokyo-previews-many-events-world-rowing-cup-iii/|title=World Rowing - Tokyo previews in many events at 2021 World Rowing Cup III|website=World Rowing}}

Club and college career

Paulis rowed collegiately for the Ohio State Buckeyes.{{cite web|url=https://ohiostatebuckeyes.com/buckeye-alum-ilse-paulis-wins-gold-at-under-23-championships/|website=Ohio State Buckeyes|title=Buckeye Alum Ilse Paulis Wins Gold at Under-23 Championships|date=28 Jul 2014|access-date=17 Feb 2019}}

International representative career

Together with Maaike Head, she won the gold medal in the lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics.{{cite web|url=https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/ilse-paulis |title=Ilse Paulis |publisher=Rio 2016 Organization |access-date=August 12, 2016 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160806042936/https://www.rio2016.com/en/athlete/ilse-paulis |archive-date=August 6, 2016 }}

World record holder

At the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, in the final of women's lightweight quad scull Paulis, Mirte Kraaijkamp, Elisabeth Woerner and Maaike Head rowed a world's best time of 6:15.95 a mark which has not been beaten as of 2021.{{Cite web |url=https://worldrowing.com/athlete/e5ef436b-17f4-4908-b58d-c70816ffe2d1 |title=Paulis at World Rowing |access-date=2021-07-02 |archive-date=2021-04-16 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210416030346/https://worldrowing.com/athlete/e5ef436b-17f4-4908-b58d-c70816ffe2d1 |url-status=dead }}

In 2016 at the World Rowing Cup III in Poznan, Paulis and Head set a new world's best time of 6:47.69 in a lightweight double scull. This record stood until June 2021 when Paulis, now rowing with Marieke Keijser clocked 6:43.79 in the final at WRC III in Sabaudia, Italy.

Personal life

Both her younger sisters are rowers too. Bente Paulis was the silver medallist at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls. Their youngest sister Femke has competed in three junior world championships.{{Cite web |title=World Rowing - Dutch triple rowing threat – The Paulis sisters |url=https://worldrowing.com/2018/10/30/dutch-triple-rowing-treat-the-paulis-sisters/ |access-date=2024-08-10 |website=World Rowing |language=en}}