Michiel Bartman to serve as Grand Marshall at Lubbers Cup and ‘Speciale gast’ speaker at Annual Spring Banquet
Thursday, February 24th, 2011Head Coach Michiel Bartman
Michiel Bartman started coaching the elite squad at Vesper Boat Club when he
retired in 2004 from a very successful rowing career for the Netherlands
with three Olympic medals and three Worlds medals in sweep and sculling.
Starting at Vesper with only a couple rowers he has rebuild it into a strong
team which has now 25 rowers (men & women, light & heavy). His squad won
numerous national and Canadian Henley titles, but also he qualified almost
every year one or two crews for the World Championships with as one of the
highlights a bronze medal with a complete Vesper crew in 2008 and a former
squad member who won Olympic Gold. His rowers who got selected for the
national team have won medals at World Cups, World Championships and Olympic
Games.
Vesper Boat Club¹s mission is to offer the rowers a competitive environment
to reach their potential either with the year round program or the
collegiate summer program. Within that environment Michiel¹s teaches the
rowers to be versatile and independent. By training mainly in small boats he
wants to create skill and boat feel so that the rower can handle any given
situation. He works with the athlete to optimize his/her performance on and
off the water.
Off the water Michiel enjoys his family live with his wife and their 10
months old daughter and he is a sales representative for Resolute Racing
Shells in New Jersey & Eastern Pennsylvania.
Michiel Bartman (three-seat, third from right) at the medal stand in Athens 1996 where he won gold in the Holland Acht
Michiel Bartman (in three seat) rowing in the eight at the Athens Olympics, 1996.
Michiel Bartman celebrating after winning silver in the eight at the 2004 Athens Olympics.