Reet Palm (since 2014 Palm-Killing; born on 14 September 1959 in

Tartu Tartu is the second largest city in Estonia after the Northern European country's political and financial capital, Tallinn. Tartu has a population of 91,407 (as of 2021). It is southeast of Tallinn and 245 kilometres (152 miles) northeast of ...

) is an

Estonia Estonia, formally the Republic of Estonia, is a country by the Baltic Sea in Northern Europe. It is bordered to the north by the Gulf of Finland across from Finland, to the west by the sea across from Sweden, to the south by Latvia, a ...

n rower and coach. In 1978 she won bronze medal at

World Rowing Championships The World Rowing Championships is an international rowing regatta organized by FISA (the International Rowing Federation). It is a week-long event held at the end of the northern hemisphere summer and in non-Olympic years is the highlight of the ...

. Between 1975 and 2007, she became an 18-times Estonian champion in different rowing disciplines. Since 1991 she has been working as a rowing coach. One of the rowers trained by her is Allar Raja. Her spouse is the rowing coach

Matti Killing Matti Killing (born on 17 March 1948 in Pärnu) is an Estonian rowing coach. Killing graduated from the Tallinn Pedagogical Institute's Faculty of Physical Education. From 1965 until 1974, he won several medals at Estonian Rowing Championships. S ...

Awards

* 1978 and 1979:

Estonian Athlete of the Year The Estonian Athlete of the Year ( et, Eesti Aasta Sportlane) is an annual award presented by the Estonian Olympic Committee (''Eesti Olümpiakomitee'', EOK) to one male and one female sportsperson judged to have delivered the best performance o ...

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Palm, Reet Living people 1959 births Estonian female rowers Estonian sports coaches World Rowing Championships medalists for the Soviet Union University of Tartu alumni Sportspeople from Tartu