Sjoerd Wartena
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Sipke Castelein and Sjoerd Wartena (right) in 1963 | ||||||||||
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| Born |
1 May 1939 Amsterdam, the Netherlands | |||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||
| Club | Nereus, Amsterdam | |||||||||
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Sjoerd Wartena (born 1 May 1939) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the coxless fours, together with Jim Enters, Herman Boelen and Sipke Castelein, and finished in fourth place.[1][2] He won a silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1963 European Championships.[3]
Son of a doctor, Wartena studied literature and worked at a university library in Amsterdam. In the 1970s he moved to a village in southern France, where he learned farming and in 2003 founded the movement Terre de Liens devoted to ecologically friendly agriculture.[4][5]
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- ↑ Sjoerd Wartena. sports-reference.com
- ↑ WARTENA Sjoerd. rowingone.com
- ↑ Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Herren – Zweier m. Stm.). sport-komplett.de
- ↑ Maria van Boxtel (April 2011) Franse landbouwgrond succesvol vrijgekocht door burgers. landco.nl
- ↑ Laetitia Clavreul (26 December 2008) Sjoerd Wartena soutient l'agriculture durable par l'achat collectif de terres. Le Monde