Femke Dekker

Femke Dekker is a Dutch rower from the Netherlands, born on 11 July 1979, who raced internationally for more than a decade. She began rowing in 1990 and made her international debut in the double sculls at the 1995 Junior World Championships in Poznan, where she and Christel Rijnten took bronze, and a year later she was a World Junior Champion in the four. As a senior she rowed the coxless pairs at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney and finished tenth, won World Championship bronze in the coxless four at Lucerne in 2001, and raced the single scull at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, again finishing tenth. From 2005 she was a regular in the newly formed Dutch women's eight, which earned World Championship bronze that year and later qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics.