Maaike Head
{{Short description|Dutch rower (born 1983)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2024}}
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|caption = Maaike Head in 2016
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{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}
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{{MedalCompetition|Olympic Games}}
{{MedalGold| 2016 Rio de Janeiro | LW2x}}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2013 Chungjiu|LW4x}}
{{MedalGold|2014 Amsterdam|LW4x}}
{{MedalCompetition|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2016 Brandenburg|LW2x}}
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Maaike Head (born 11 September 1983 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch rower. She competed in the lightweight double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the latter, she won the gold medal together with Ilse Paulis.
Career
In 2016, Head and Paulis broke the world record in the lightweight double sculls.
Before rowing, she participated in speed skating, winning a gold medal in the team pursuit at the 2003 World Junior Championships in Kushiro, Japan, and participating in Dutch Allround Championships.{{cite web |url=http://www.schaatsen.nl/nieuws/2016/olympisch-roeigoud-oud-schaatsster-maaike-head/ |title=Olympisch roeigoud oud-schaatsster Maaike Head |date=August 12, 2016 |publisher=Schaatsen.nl |language=nl |access-date=August 12, 2016 }}
References
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External links
- {{FISA|33006}}
- {{Olympedia}}
- {{SR/Olympics|archive=20161203075413}}
- {{Olympics.com|org_archive=20200616123342}}
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{{Olympic champions – Women's lightweight double sculls}}
{{World champions – Lightweight women's quadruple sculls}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Head, Maaike}}
Category:Dutch female speed skaters
Category:Rowers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic rowers for the Netherlands
Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Rowers from Amsterdam
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for the Netherlands
Category:Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Category:Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau
Category:European Rowing Championships medalists
Category:21st-century Dutch sportswomen
Category:20th-century Dutch women
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