Lisa Laetitia Westerhof (born 2 November 1981, in

De Bilt De Bilt () is a municipality and town in the province of Utrecht, Netherlands. It had a population of in . De Bilt houses the headquarters of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute (KNMI). It is the ancestral home and namesake for the pro ...

) is a

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from the

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. Westerhof represented her country at the

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in 1995 and 1996, becoming only the second girl to win the championship outright. She sailed at the

2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics ( el, Θερινοί Ολυμπιακοί Αγώνες 2004, ), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad ( el, Αγώνες της 28ης Ολυμπιάδας, ) and also known as Athens 2004 ( el, Αθήνα 2004), ...

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. With crew

Margriet Matthijsse Margriet Matthijsse (born 16 April 1977, in Rotterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented her country for the first time at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta. Matthijsse took the silver in Europe. In the 2000 Olympics in Sydney Matthij ...

took Westerhof 9th place as helmsman in the Dutch Women's 470. Westerhof's second Olympic appearance was during the

2012 Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012) was an international multi-sport event held from 27 July to 12 August 2012 in London, England, United Kingdom. The first event, the ...

in Weymouth again as helmsman in the Women's 470. Now with

Lobke Berkhout Lobke Berkhout (born 11 November 1980 in Amsterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands who represented her country at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Qingdao. With helmsman Marcelien de Koning Berkhout took the silver medal as crew in the Women's ...

as crew Westerhof took the Bronze.

Professional life

Westerhof lives in

Scheveningen Scheveningen is one of the eight districts of The Hague, Netherlands, as well as a subdistrict (''wijk'') of that city. Scheveningen is a modern seaside resort with a long, sandy beach, an esplanade, a pier, and a lighthouse. The beach is po ...

, studied economics at the

Erasmus University Erasmus University Rotterdam (abbreviated as ''EUR'', nl, Erasmus Universiteit Rotterdam ) is a public research university located in Rotterdam, Netherlands. The university is named after Desiderius Erasmus Roterodamus, a 15th-century humanist ...

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"N ...

, and is a First Officer on the Boeing 737 for

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* * * 1981 births Living people Dutch female sailors (sport) Olympic medalists in sailing Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic sailors for the Netherlands Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – 470 Sailors at the 2012 Summer Olympics – 470 Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics World champions in sailing for the Netherlands 470 class world champions Optimist class world champions Erasmus University Rotterdam alumni People from De Bilt Sportspeople from Utrecht (province) 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub