Rachelle Viinberg

Rachelle Viinberg (née De Jong, born April 30, 1979) is a retired Canadian Olympic rower and naturopathic doctor who resides in Toronto, Ontario.

In school, Viinberg pursued swimming after seeing Calgary Olympian Mark Tewksbury win the 100-metre backstroke at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics.

"They helped me discover rowing after seeing all the rowers train every morning on Wascana Lake when they drove to work.

With one of the crew members suffering a rib fracture,[citation needed] the team achieved an eighth-place finish.

When asked about her mother at the 2012 Olympic Games, Viinberg said, "She battled stage three colon cancer so she could be in the stands to watch me perform my dream.