Aurelia-Maxima Janzen

Aurelia-Maxima Katharina Janzen (born 27 December 2003) is a Swiss rower. She competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Career She raced her first U23 champs aged 17 years-old. She won a gold at the 2021 World Rowing Junior Championships. She won gold at the 2022 European Rowing U23 Championships, and two silvers at the 2021 and 2022 World Rowing U23 Championships, all in the single scull.

She won the 2023 German Championships in Brandenburg.

She secured a place at the Olympic Games with her performance in Lucerne in May 2024. She competed in the single sculls at the 2024 Paris Olympics, qualifying for the quarter finals.

At the World U23 Championships in Poland in July 2025, she won the single sculls by over 10 seconds from Greece’s Eleni Diavati and Australian Romy Cantwell.

Personal life She has dual citizenship of Switzerland and Germany. She favours the use of old fashioned Macon blades.