Gerritjan Eggenkamp, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gerritjan Eggenkamp

Dutch rower

Date of Birth: 14-Nov-1975

Place of Birth: Leiden, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: rower

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gerritjan Eggenkamp (14 November 1975) is a Dutch rower. Born in Leiden, Netherlands, Eggenkamp started rowing aged 12 at Het Spaarne rowing club in Heemstede, and first competed internationally as a Junior, coming 9th in the coxless four at the 1993 Junior World Championships.
He was named as the spare man for the Dutch Men's coxless four for the 1996 Olympics, and then rowed in the coxless four at the 1997 and 1998 World Championships.
He was in the Dutch men's eight for the 2000 Olympic Games.
In 2002, he became the first Dutch rower to compete in the 148th Oxford- Cambridge Boat Race, rowing in the three seat for the winning Oxford crew. At the 2004 Olympic Games he rowed in the Silver medal winning Dutch Men's 8+. In September 2018 he was elected treasurer of FISA, the International Rowing Federation.