Sjoerd Wartena
Sipke Castelein and Sjoerd Wartena (right) in 1963
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1 May 1939 Amsterdam, the Netherlands |
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| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) | |||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||
| Club | Nereus, Amsterdam | |||||||||||||
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Sjoerd Wartena (born 1 May 1939) is a retired Dutch rower. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the coxless fours, together with Jim Enters, Herman Boelen and Sipke Castelein, and finished in fourth place. He won a silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1963 European Championships.
Son of a doctor, Wartena studied literature and worked at a university library in Amsterdam. In the 1970s he moved to a village in southern France, where he learned farming and in 2003 founded the movement devoted to ecologically friendly agriculture.
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