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.Athlete biography: Paul Drewes beijing2008.cn, ret: 7 August 2008
Drewes rows in the lightweight fours and lightweight double sculls and debuted in the
Rowing World Cup
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circuit May 2005 in
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in the lightweight fours where he finished in fourth position together with his teammates
Wim Bakker
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, Jacob Haartsen and Samuel Alberga. His lightweight double sculls debut followed in July 2005 with a fifth position together with
Karel Dormans
Karel Dormans (born 3 June 1975, in Weert) is a Dutch rower. He finished 4th in the men's lightweight coxless four at the 2004 Summer Olympics
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in
Luzern
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. At the World Championships in
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he and Wolter Blankert reached the ninth position. 2006 was focused on the lightweight fours again and at the World Cup meeting in
Munich
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Drewes, Arnoud Greidanus, Blankert and Tom van den Broek became third. An additional fifth place in Luzern gave them some hope for the World Championships in Eton, but in the end they only finished in an eleventh position there.
In 2007 he started in the lightweight double sculls again, this time with
Roeland Lievens
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and a second place in the World Cup meeting in
Linz
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was the result. The next two World Cups in
Amsterdam
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and Luzern however he would row in the lightweight fours again. With Alwin Snijders, Greidanus and Lievens he became third in Amsterdam. With
Gerard van der Linden
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instead of Greidanus they also became third in Luzern. This was also the team selection for the World Championships in
Munich
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but they only became tenth this time.
For the 2008 season he rowed another two World Cups in the lightweight double sculls with Roeland Lievens. In Munich they became third and in Luzern second. With
Marshall Godschalk
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Poznań
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. Their fifth position there was enough to qualify for the
2008 Summer Olympics
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