{{short description|Dutch rower}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} {{Infobox sportsperson | full_name = Meindert Gerrit Klem | birth_date = 16 October 1987 | birth_place = Ouderkerk aan de Amstel, Netherlands | height = 196 cm | weight = 92 kg | medaltemplates = {{Medal|Sport|Men's rowing}} {{Medal|Country|{{NED}}}} {{Medal|Competition|World Championships}} {{Medal|Bronze|2009 Poznań|Eight}} }}
'''Meindert Gerrit Klem''' (born 16 October 1987 in Ouderkerk aan de Amstel) is a rower from the Netherlands.<ref name="so08">{{cite web |url=http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/0/218150.shtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080903140952/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/0/218150.shtml |archive-date=3 September 2008 |title=Meindert Klem |work=Beijing 2008 Olympics |access-date=14 August 2008}}</ref>
Klem qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing with the Dutch eights forming a team with Olaf van Andel, Jozef Klaassen, Rogier Blink, David Kuiper, Diederik Simon, Olivier Siegelaar, Mitchel Steenman and cox Peter Wiersum.<ref>{{Cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NED/summer/2008/ROW/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417164317/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/countries/NED/summer/2008/ROW/ |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Netherlands Rowing at the 2008 Beijing Summer Games|access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref><ref name=":0">{{Cite Sports-Reference |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/meindert-klem-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418101710/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/kl/meindert-klem-1.html |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Meindert Klem |access-date=6 May 2017}}</ref> At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed in the men's pair with Nanne Sluis.<ref name=":0" />
Klem began rowing in October 2002 at Willem III Rowing Club in Amsterdam, Netherlands.<ref name="FISA profile">{{cite web |title=Meindert Klem |url=http://www.worldrowing.com/athletes/athlete/22014/results/ |publisher=International Rowing Federation |accessdate=20 April 2018}}</ref> As a junior, he won the Dutch Indoor Rowing Championship in 2002, and the Ergohead in 2003.{{cn|date=April 2018}} He was selected for the Junior National Team for the Coupe de la Jeunesse in the double, and won two gold medals with double partner Jacques Huppes.{{cn|date=April 2018}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== * {{World Rowing}} * {{Olympics.com}} * {{Olympedia}} * {{InterSportStats}}
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