Megan Dirkmat ( born Megan Dirkmaat ; born , ) is an American rower who played for the US national rowing team from 1999-2007. Silver medalist of the Athens Summer Olympics , world champion, winner of many regattas of national and international importance.
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| Club | Los Gatos RC; Princeton tc |
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| Growth | 185 cm |
| Weight | 81 kg |
Biography
Megan Dirkmat was born on May 3, 1976 in San Jose , California .
She started rowing in 1993, was a member of the rowing team while studying at the University of California at Berkeley . She was later trained at the United States Rowing Training Center in Princeton .
She made her debut at the adult international level in the 1999 season, when she joined the main team of the American national team and visited the World Cup in Lucerne, where she qualified in the oversight steering eights in the consolation final B.
In 2001, at the World Championships in Lucerne, she took fourth place in the eights.
In 2002, she finished fifth in wheelless doubles at the World Cup stage in Lucerne, while at the world championship in Seville in the same discipline she was far from prize positions.
At the 2003 World Cup stage in Munich, she won the eights, while at the World Cup in Milan she finished fifth.
In 2004, the eights marked victories at the World Cup in Munich and Lucerne. Thanks to a series of successful performances, she was awarded the right to defend the country's honor at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens - as part of the eight, which included the rowers Kate Johnson , Anna Mickelson , Samantha Maggie , Alison Cox , Laurel Korholz , Karin Davis , Lianne Nelson and helmsman Mary Whipple , She showed the second result in the final, almost two seconds behind the winning team in Romania, and thus became the Olympic silver medalist.
After the Athens Olympics, Dirkmat remained in the US rowing team for another Olympic cycle and continued to take part in major international regattas. So, in 2005, in the eights, she won a bronze medal at the World Cup in Munich and took fourth place in the world championship in Gifu .
In 2007, in the oar steeringless fours she won the world championship in Munich . Soon after the end of these competitions, she decided to end her sports career.
Links
- Megan Dirkmat - Olympic statistics at Sports-Reference.com
- Megan Dirkmat - profile on the FISA website
- Megan Dirkmat (eng.) - Page on the website of the International Olympic Committee