Annebel van der Knijff

Annebel van der Knijff
Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
Representing  Spain
European Championships
2015 Markkleeberg C-1 team
U23 World Championships
2015 Foz do Iguaçu C-1 team
2013 Liptovský Mikuláš C-1 team
U23 European Championships
2012 Solkan C-1 team
Junior European Championships
2013 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team
2014 Skopje C-1 team

Annebel van der Knijff (born 5 March 1996 in Wassenaar, Netherlands) is an ICF Dutch-Spanish canoe slalom paddler in C1 and K1.[1]

Career

Annebel won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the 2015 European Championships in Markkleeberg. She won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the ICF U23 European Championships in 2012, her first international competition at age 16.[2] At the ICF U23 World Championships 2013 in Liptovský Mikuláš, she won a silver medal in C-1 team event.[3] At the ICF Junior European Championships 2013 in Bourg St. Maurice she won a gold medal in K-1 team event.[4]

Personal

Both her parents were world cup windsurfers. Her mother overall Dutch champion windsurfer in 1996.

She moved from the Netherlands to Andorra at age 3, then to Spain, living next to the 1992 Olympic wild water course. She has been paddling since 8 years old and won most National Spanish Championships of her category since then. She has been a part of the Spanish senior team in C-1 since 2013 and the Spanish junior and U23 team in C1 and K1 since 2012.

References

  1. ↑ Annebel VAN DER KNIJFF
  2. ↑ Canoeing Slalom ECF Junior & Under 23 European Championships 2012 Archived January 19, 2013, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. ↑ Canoeing - World U-23 Championships - Slalom 2013
  4. ↑ 2013 ECA Canoe Slalom Junior/U23 European Championships Junior Team K1
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/14/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.