Annebel van der Knijff

Annebel van der Knijff
Medal record
Women's canoe slalom
Competitor for  Spain
European Championships
2015 Markkleeberg C-1 team
U23 World Championships
2015 Foz do Iguaçu C-1 team
2013 Liptovský Mikuláš C-1 team
U23 European Championships
2012 Solkan C-1 team
Junior European Championships
2013 Bourg St.-Maurice K-1 team
2014 Skopje C-1 team

Annebel van der Knijff (born 5 March 1996 in Wassenaar, Netherlands) is an ICF Dutch-Spanish canoe slalom paddler in C1 and K1.[1]

Career

Annebel won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the 2015 European Championships in Markkleeberg. She won a gold medal in the C-1 team event at the ICF U23 European Championships in 2012, her first international competition at age 16.[2] At the ICF U23 World Championships 2013 in Liptovský Mikuláš, she won a silver medal in C-1 team event.[3] At the ICF Junior European Championships 2013 in Bourg St. Maurice she won a gold medal in K-1 team event.[4]

Personal

Both her parents were world cup windsurfers. Her mother overall Dutch champion windsurfer in 1996.

She moved from the Netherlands to Andorra at age 3, then to Spain, living next to the 1992 Olympic wild water course. She has been paddling since 8 years old and won most National Spanish Championships of her category since then. She has been a part of the Spanish senior team in C-1 since 2013 and the Spanish junior and U23 team in C1 and K1 since 2012.

References

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