Ilse Paulis (born 30 July 1993) is a Dutch representative rower. She is a world champion, a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold medallist and has set three world's best times, two of which are standing world records as of 2021. She is racing the lightweight women's double scull with Marieke Keijser at Tokyo 2021.

Club and college career

Paulis rowed collegiately for the

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International representative career

Together with

Maaike Head Maaike Head (born 11 September 1983 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch rower. She competed in the lightweight double sculls at the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2016 Summer Olympics. In the latter, she won the gold medal together with Ilse Paulis. Car ...

, she won the gold medal in the

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at the

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World record holder

At the

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in Amsterdam, in the final of women's lightweight quad scull Paulis, Mirte Kraaijkamp, Elisabeth Woerner and

rowed a world's best time of 6:15.95 a mark which has not been beaten as of 2021. In 2016 at the World Rowing Cup III in Poznan, Paulis and Head set a new world's best time of 6:47.69 in a lightweight double scull. This record stood until June 2021 when Paulis, now rowing with Marieke Keijser clocked 6:43.79 in the final at WRC III in Sabaudia, Italy.

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* * * * 1993 births Living people Dutch female rowers Rowers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic rowers of the Netherlands Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in rowing World Rowing Championships medalists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau Ohio State Buckeyes rowers People from Leiderdorp Rowers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from South Holland 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-rowing-bio-stub