Ruth Nortje
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| Born | 17 January 1967 Polokwane, South Africa | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Canoeing | ||||||||||||||||||||
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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.
References
- Ruth Nortje at Olympedia
- Ruth Nortje at InterSportStats
Categories:
- 1967 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Polokwane
- American female canoeists
- South African female canoeists
- Canoeists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Canoeists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic canoeists for South Africa
- 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
- 20th-century American sportswomen
- American canoeist stubs
- African canoeist stubs
- South African sportspeople stubs