Sytske de Groot
Dutch rower
Sytske de Groot (born 3 April 1986 in Delft) is a Dutch rower. She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics where she won the bronze medal in the Women's eight.
As of 2012, she was a student of marine engineering at Delft University of Technology and she was a member of the DSR Proteus-Eretes student rowing club in Delft. As a part of Dutch women's eight team, she was a bronze medalist at the 2009 European Championship and a silver medalist of the 2010 European Championship.
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