Veronique Meester
{{short description|Dutch rower (born 1995)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=August 2024}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
| name = Veronique Meester
| image = 20220813 ECM22 Rowing 7634.jpg
| nationality = Dutch
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1995|4|7|df=y}}
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| country = Netherlands
| sport = Rowing
| event = Coxless four, coxless pair, eight
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| show-medals = no
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{{MedalSport|Women's rowing}}
{{MedalCountry|the {{NED}}}}
{{MedalOlympic}}
{{MedalGold|2024 Paris|Coxless pair}}
{{MedalSilver|2020 Tokyo|Coxless four}}
{{MedalComp|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2023 Belgrade|Coxless pair}}
{{MedalSilver|2019 Ottensheim|Coxless four}}
{{MedalSilver|2022 Račice|Coxless pair}}
{{MedalSilver|2022 Račice|Eight}}
{{MedalComp|European Championships}}
{{MedalGold|2019 Lucerne|Coxless four}}
{{MedalGold|2020 Poznań|Coxless four}}
{{MedalGold|2021 Varese|Coxless four}}
{{MedalSilver|2017 Račice|Eight}}
{{MedalSilver|2023 Bled|Coxless pair}}
{{MedalBronze|2022 Oberschleißheim|Coxless pair}}
{{MedalBronze|2022 Oberschleißheim|Eight}}
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Veronique Meester (born 7 April 1995) is a Dutch rower. She was a member of the Dutch coxless four, along with Ellen Hogerwerf, Ymkje Clevering and Karolien Florijn, that won an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo 2020.{{Cite web |last=Pender |first=Kieran |date=28 July 2021 |title='Amazing hour' of Olympic rowing produces Australian medal bonanza |url=https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2021/jul/28/australias-latest-oarsome-foursomes-double-up-in-olympic-rowing-gold-rush |access-date=17 August 2022 |website=The Guardian}}{{Cite web |last=Tennery |first=Amy |date=28 July 2021 |title=Rowing-Netherlands, China win in world best times in speedy day of competition |url=https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/sports/rowing-romania-wins-womens-double-sculls-gold-france-takes-mens-crown-2021-07-28/ |access-date=17 August 2022 |work=Reuters}} The same crew was a three-time European Champion (in 2019, 2020 and 2021) and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. In August 2022 Meester and her former coxless four teammate Ymkje Clevering won the bronze medal in the coxless pair at the European Championships in Munich.{{Cite web |date=13 August 2022 |title=Clevering en Meester pakken brons in twee zonder op EK roeien |url=https://www.rtlnieuws.nl/sport/artikel/5326677/clevering-en-meester-pakken-brons-twee-zonder-op-ek-roeien |access-date=18 August 2022 |website=RTL Nieuws |language=nl}}
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{{Olympic champions – Women's coxless pair}}
{{World champions – Women's coxless pair}}
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Category:World Rowing Championships medalists for the Netherlands
Category:Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic medalists in rowing
Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Category:Rowers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Category:21st-century Dutch sportswomen
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