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Wianka van Dorp

Dutch rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ11837720 ↗
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Wianka van Dorp (born 1 December 1987) is a Dutch rower. Competing as the bow in different events she won a bronze medal at the 2011 World Championships and three silver medals at the European championships in 2013–2016. She finished sixth in the eight at the 2016 Rio Olympics.

Van dorp took up rowing in 2004. She has degrees in management and the marketing supply chain from Open University in the Netherlands and in management and sports marketing from Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences.

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“Wianka van Dorp” enters the record as dutch rower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Wianka, Dorp and Dutch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2011, 2013, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-12-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Wianka, Dorp and Dutch.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11837720. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2011, 2013 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wianka van Dorp” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.