Ilse Paulis

Ilse Paulis

File:Ilse Paulis Ruder-EM 2016 35 (cropped).JPG Ilse Paulis in 2016
Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1993-07-30) 30 July 1993 Leiderdorp, Netherlands
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Rowing
Event(s)	Lightweight double sculls, Lightweight quadruple sculls
Medal record Women's rowing Representing the Netherlands Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Lwt double sculls 2020 Tokyo Lwt double sculls World Championships 2014 Amsterdam Lwt quad sculls 2019 Ottensheim Lwt double sculls 2018 Plovdiv Lwt double sculls European Championships 2016 Brandenburg Lwt double sculls 2018 Glasgow Lwt double sculls 2017 Račice Lwt double sculls

Ilse Paulis (born 30 July 1993) is a Dutch representative rower. She is a world champion, a dual Olympian, an Olympic gold medallist and has set three world's best times, two of which are standing world records as of 2021. She is racing the lightweight women's double scull with Marieke Keijser at Tokyo 2021.

Club and college career

Paulis rowed collegiately for the Ohio State Buckeyes.

International representative career

Together with Maaike Head, she won the gold medal in the lightweight double sculls at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

World record holder

At the 2014 World Rowing Championships in Amsterdam, in the final of women's lightweight quad scull Paulis, Mirte Kraaijkamp, Elisabeth Woerner and Maaike Head rowed a world's best time of 6:15.95 a mark which has not been beaten as of 2021.

In 2016 at the World Rowing Cup III in Poznan, Paulis and Head set a new world's best time of 6:47.69 in a lightweight double scull. This record stood until June 2021 when Paulis, now rowing with Marieke Keijser clocked 6:43.79 in the final at WRC III in Sabaudia, Italy.

Personal life

Both her younger sisters are rowers too. Bente Paulis was the silver medallist at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the quadruple sculls. Their youngest sister Femke has competed in three junior world championships.