GMELIN Jeannine

Olympic Games

Year	Location	1x
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	5

World Championships

Year	Location	1x
2019	Linz, AUT	5
2018	Plovdiv, BUL	2
2017	Sarasota, FL, USA	1
2015	Aiguebelette-le-Lac, FRA	5
2014	Amsterdam, NED	15

European Championships

Year	Location	1x
2021	Varese, ITA	3
2020	Poznan, POL	5
2019	Lucerne, SUI	2
2018	Glasgow, GBR	1

World Cup

Rank	Event	Year	Location	Result
1	Single Sculls	2018	Lucerne, SUI	7:35.94
1	Single Sculls	2018	Linz, AUT	7:19.52
1	Single Sculls	2018	Belgrade, SRB	7:22.78
1	Single Sculls	2017	Lucerne, SUI	7:25.22
1	Single Sculls	2017	Belgrade, SRB	7:27.88
2	Single Sculls	2019	Rotterdam, NED	8:18.60
6	Single Sculls	2021	Lucerne, SUI	7:44.82

Legend
DNF - Did Not Finish, DNS - Did Not Start, EXC - Excluded

Baking, sport, spending time with friends, cinema, cooking, travel. (jeanninegmelin.ch, 03 Jun 2019)

Athlete

English, French, German

RC Uster [Switzerland]

Robin Dowell [personal]

She began rowing at age 12 at the Rowing Club Uster in Switzerland. (jeanninegmelin.ch, 12 Apr 2016)

She and her brother Valentin searched together for a hobby and chose rowing. In 2003 she joined a beginner course at Rowing Club Uster. (jeanninegmelin.ch, 12 Apr 2016)

To win a gold medal at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (blick.ch, 28 Mar 2020)

She trains abroad for about three weeks each month, often in northern Italy as well as in Spain. Her sessions last for up to six hours a day. She completes two to three training sessions per day, six times a week and covers up to 50 kilometres a day. (schweizer-illustrierte.ch, 02 Jun 2019; nzz.ch, 04 Apr 2019; tagesanzeiger.ch, 05 Dec 2019)

"The will to succeed is important, but what's more important is the will to prepare." (Twitter profile, 26 May 2016)

She was named Best Female Rower of 2017 at the World Rowing Awards. (swissrowing.ch, 08 Dec 2017)