[2] His lightweight double sculls debut followed in July 2005 with a fifth position together with Karel Dormans in Luzern.
[2] 2006 was focused on the lightweight fours again and at the World Cup meeting in Munich Drewes, Arnoud Greidanus, Blankert and Tom van den Broek became third.
[2] An additional fifth place in Luzern gave them some hope for the World Championships in Eton, but in the end they only finished in an eleventh position there.
[2] In 2007 he started in the lightweight double sculls again, this time with Roeland Lievens and a second place in the World Cup meeting in Linz was the result.
[2] With Marshall Godschalk, Gerard van der Linden and Ivo Snijders he took part in the lightweight fours again in the next World Cup in Poznań.