Karolien Florijn

Karolien Florijn
Florijn in 2022
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (1998-04-06) 6 April 1998
Leiden
Parents
RelativeFinn Florijn (brother)
Sport
CountryNetherlands
SportRowing
Event(s)Coxless four, eights, single sculls, quadruple sculls
ClubNereus
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
2024 ParisSingle sculls
2020 TokyoCoxless four
World Championships
2022 RačiceSingle sculls
2023 BelgradeSingle sculls
2019 OttensheimCoxless four
2018 PlovdivQuadruple sculls
European Championships
2019 LucerneCoxless four
2020 PoznańCoxless four
2021 VareseCoxless four
2022 MunichSingle sculls
2023 BledSingle sculls
2017 RačiceEight
2018 GlasgowQuadruple sculls

Karolien Florijn (born 6 April 1998) is a Dutch rower. She was a member of the Dutch coxless four, along with Ellen Hogerwerf, Ymkje Clevering and Veronique Meester, that won an Olympic silver medal in Tokyo 2020. The same crew was a three-time European Champion (in 2019, 2020 and 2021) and won a silver medal at the 2019 World Rowing Championships. Florijn returned to the single sculls in 2022, winning the overall World Rowing Cup trophy and winning the gold medal at the European Championships in Munich. She won the single sculls event at the 2024 Paris Summer Olympic Games.