Maria Brandin
{{short description|Swedish rower|bot=PearBOT 5}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=May 2018}}
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|name= Maria Brandin
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|birth_date= 4 September 1963
|birth_place= Kungälv, Västra Götaland, Sweden
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|sport=Rowing
|event= single scull
|club= Kungalv Roddklubb
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{{MedalSport | Women's rowing }}
{{MedalCountry | {{SWE}} }}
{{MedalCompetition | World Rowing Championships }}
{{MedalGold | 1995 Tampere | W1x }}
{{MedalBronze | 1997 Aiguebelette | W1x }}
{{MedalBronze | 1998 Cologne | W1x }}
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Maria Helene Brandin (born 4 September 1963 in Kungälv) is a former Swedish rower, who competed in four Olympic Games.
Biography
Brandin competed in four Olympic Games from 1988 to 2002 respectively{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/39843 |title=Maria Brandin |website=Olympedia |access-date=5 August 2024}}
Brandin is a five-time winner of the Princess Royal Challenge Cup (the premier women's singles sculls event) at the Henley Royal Regatta, while rowing for the Kungalv Roddklubb from 1993 to 1998.{{cite web|url=https://www.hrr.co.uk/results/?result-page=1&trophy=the-diamond-challenge-sculls |title=Diamond Challenge Sculls, List of past winners |website=Henley Royal Regatta |access-date=5 August 2024}}{{cite news |url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500205401/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=bookmark-GDCS&xid=283f0c1d |title=Results from Henley Royal Regatta' (1998) |date=6 July 1998 |newspaper=The Times |access-date=4 August 2024 |page=34 |via=The Times Digital Archive|url-access=subscription }} The five successes is a record number of wins and was equalled in 2015, by Czech rower Miroslava Knapková.
References
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- {{FISA|1341}}
- {{cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/maria-brandin-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417204120/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/maria-brandin-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=2020-04-17}}
{{World champions – Women's single sculls}}
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Category:Swedish female rowers
Category:Rowers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Category:Rowers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic rowers for Sweden
Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for Sweden
Category:Sportspeople from Kungälv
Category:Rowers from Västra Götaland County
Category:20th-century Swedish sportswomen
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