Ruth Nortje
Appearance
Medal record | ||
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Women's canoe sprint | ||
Pan American Games | ||
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2003 Santo Domingo | K-1 500 m |
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2003 Santo Domingo | K-2 500 m |
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2003 Santo Domingo | K-4 500 m |
Ruth Nortje (born 17 January 1967) is a South African-born, American canoe sprinter who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won three medals for the United States at the 2003 Pan American Games in Santo Domingo.
Nortje also competed for South Africa in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh in the K-1 500 m event at Sydney in 2000.
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Categories:
- 1967 births
- Living people
- American female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists for South Africa
- South African female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 2003 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in canoeing
- Pan American Games silver medalists for the United States in canoeing
- 21st-century American sportswomen
- American canoeist stubs
- Canoeist stubs
- South African sportspeople stubs