Ranomi Kromowidjojo
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| Personal information |
| Full name |
Ranomi Kromowidjojo |
| Nationality |
 Netherlands |
| Born |
August 20, 1990 (1990-08-20) (age 21)
Sauwerd, Netherlands |
| Height |
1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] |
| Weight |
67 kg (150 lb; 10.6 st) |
| Sport |
| Sport |
Swimming |
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| Stroke(s) |
freestyle, backstroke |
| Club |
Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven |
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Ranomi Kromowidjojo (born August 20, 1990 in Sauwerd, Netherlands) is a Dutch swimmer[2] who mainly specializes in freestyle but also has potential in backstroke and butterfly events. As part of the Dutch team, she holds the world records in the 4×50 m[3] and 4×200 m[4] freestyle relays on short course (25 m pool), and 4×100 m freestyle relay on long course (50 m pool.[5] Update: Worldchampion 100 meter Freestyle in Dubai, 17 December 2010.
[edit] Swimming career
After winning medals at the European Junior Swimming Championships in 2005 and 2006 she made her international senior debut at the European LC Championships 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. She immediately won her first international senior medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, alongside Inge Dekker, Chantal Groot and Marleen Veldhuis, at the age of 15.
She went on to qualified for her first World Championships. At the World LC Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia, she won a bronze medal in the 4×100 freestyle relay together with Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. Individually she finished 13th in the 100 freestyle. At the end of 2007 she swam the A-qualification standard for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and swam the world record in the 4×100 m freestyle Short course, with Hinkelien Schreuder, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis, at the Dutch Open Swim Cup. In the week afterwards she competed in the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 in Debrecen, Hungary. There she swum another world record in the 4×50 m freestyle short course together with Hinkelien Schreuder, Inge Dekker and Marleen Veldhuis.
[edit] Spring 2008
Her first major tournament in 2008 was the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven. In the 4×100 m freestyle, she won the gold medal and with the team: Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. They broke the world record, the new standard is 3:33.62. With the same team she finished up fourth in the 4×200 m freestyle. Individually she finished 9th in the 200 m freestyle. A few weeks later at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships in Manchester she won the world title in the 4×200 m freestyle relay and broke another world record, again with Dekker, Heemskerk and Veldhuis. After the 100 m freestyle heats she withdrew from the tournament with an elbow injury.
[edit] 2008 Olympics
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she became an Olympic champion by winning the gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle, as few days before her 18th birthday, Again alongside Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. Their time was 3:33.76; just outside their own world record.[6] The day after she started individually in the 200 m freestyle ending 23rd in the heats. She was also part of both the 4×200 m freestyle and 4×100 m medley relay teams, which failed to qualify for the respective finals.
[edit] Fall 2008
At the end of the year Ranomi took part in several championships. She started with the Swim Cup Eindhoven 2008, where she broke the national record in the 50 m backstroke long course, her first individual national record, and qualified for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in the 100 m freestyle. One week afterwards she took part in the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2008 in Rijeka, Croatia. Where she won two gold medals, in the 4×50 m freestyle and 4×50 m medley relay, and a bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle behind Marleen Veldhuis and Jeanette Ottesen. She also became sixth in the 50 m backstroke.
In 2010 Kromowidjojo took part in the 2010 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) winning individual gold medals in both the 50m freestyle and the 100m freestyle, setting a championship record of 51.45. She also won a gold medal as part of the 4×100m freestyle relay team alongside Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Hinkelien Schreuder with another championship record of 3:28.54.
In 2011 Kromowidjojo won a gold medal at the 2011 World Aquatics Championships as part of the 4×100m freestyle relay team alongside Inge Dekker, Marleen Veldhuis and Femke Heemskerk in a time of 3:33.96, 2.24 seconds above their own world record. Individually she won a bronze medal in the 100m freestyle with a time of 53.66 behind Jeanette Ottesen and Aliaksandra Herisimenia who tied for first in 53.45
[edit] Personal bests
| Short course[7][8] |
| Event |
Time |
Date |
Location |
| 50 m freestyle |
23.58 |
2009-12-13 |
Istanbul, Turkey |
| 100 m freestyle |
51.44 |
2009-12-11 |
Istanbul, Turkey |
| 200 m freestyle |
1:55.82 |
2008-12-21 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 400 m freestyle |
4:06.25 |
2008-12-19 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 50 m backstroke |
27.08 |
2008-12-13 |
Rijeka, Croatia |
| 100 m backstroke |
59.90 |
2008-12-20 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 50 m butterfly |
26.13 |
2008-12-29 |
Saint Paul, France |
| 100 m butterfly |
58.93 |
2009-11-09 |
Rijeka, Croatia |
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| Long course[7][8] |
| Event |
Time |
Date |
Location |
| 50 m freestyle |
24.35 |
2011-04-10 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 100 m freestyle |
53.31 |
2008-12-06 |
Rome, Italy |
| 200 m freestyle |
1:59.77 |
2008-03-22 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 50 m backstroke |
28.70 |
2008-12-05 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 100 m backstroke |
1:05.90 |
2007-06-03 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
| 50 m butterfly |
25.74 |
2011-04-07 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
| 100 m butterfly |
59.72 |
2009-06-13 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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- 1912: Great Britain (Moore, Fletcher, Speirs, Steer)
- 1920: USA (Woodridge, Schroth, Guest, Bleibtrey)
- 1924: USA (Donnelly, Ederle, Lackie, Wehselau)
- 1928: USA (Lambert, Osipowich, Saville, Norelius)
- 1932: USA (Helen Johns, Saville, McKim, Madison)
- 1936: Netherlands (Selbach, Wagner, Den Ouden, Mastenbroek)
- 1948: USA (Corridon, Kalama, Helser, Curtis)
- 1952: Hungary (I. Novák, Temes, E. Novák, Szőke)
- 1956: Australia (Fraser, Leech, Morgan, Crapp)
- 1960: USA (Spillane, Stobs, Wood, von Saltza)
- 1964: USA (Stouder, de Varona, Watson, Ellis)
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- 1972: USA (Babashoff, Barkman, Kemp, Neilson)
- 1976: USA (Peyton, Sterkel, Babashoff, Boglioli)
- 1980: East Germany (Krause, Metschuck, Diers, Hülsenbeck)
- 1984: USA (Johnson, Steinseifer, Torres, Hogshead)
- 1988: East Germany (Otto, Meißner, Hunger, Stellmach)
- 1992: USA (Haislett, Martino, Thompson, Torres)
- 1996: USA (Martino, Van Dyken, Fox, Thompson)
- 2000: USA (Van Dyken, Shealy, Thompson, Torres)
- 2004: Australia (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry)
- 2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)
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- 1973: East Germany (Ender, Eife, Hübner, Eichner)
- 1975: East Germany (Ender, Krause, Hempel, Brückner)
- 1978: United States (Caulkins, Elkins, Sterkel, Woodhead)
- 1982: East Germany (Meineke, Link, Otto, Metschuck)
- 1986: East Germany (Otto, Stellmach, Schulze, Friedrich)
- 1991: United States (Haislett, Cooper, Hedgepeth, Thompson)
- 1994: China (Le J., Shan, Le Y., Lü)
- 1998: United States (Farella, Van Dyken, Bedford, Thompson)
- 2001: Germany (Dallmann, Buschschulte, Meißner, Völker)
- 2003: United States (Coughlin, Benko, Jeffrey, Thompson)
- 2005: Australia (Henry, Mills, Reese, Lenton)
- 2007: Australia (Lenton, Schlanger, Reese, Henry)
- 2009: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)
- 2011: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Veldhuis, Heemskerk)
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- 1993: PR China (Lü, Shan, Jia, Le)
- 1995: PR China (Chao, Shan, Han, Le)
- 1997: PR China (Le, Chao, Shan, Nian)
- 1999: Great Britain (Sheppard, Huddart, Pickering, Rolph)
- 2000: Sweden (Jöhncke, Alshammar, Kammerling, Sjöberg)
- 2002: Sweden (Lillhage, Alshammar, Sjöberg, Kammerling)
- 2004: United States (Weir, Joyce, Benko, Thompson)
- 2006: Netherlands (Dekker, Schreuder, Groot, Veldhuis)
- 2008: Netherlands (Schreuder, Heemskerk, Dekker, Veldhuis)
- 2010: Netherlands (Heemskerk, Dekker, Schreuder, Kromowidjojo)
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- 1993: China (Shan, Zhou, Le, Lü)
- 1995: Canada (Limpert, Shakespeare, Evanetz, Malar)
- 1997: China (Luna, Nian, Chen, Shan)
- 1999: Sweden (Lillhage, Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Svahnström)
- 2000: Great Britain (Huddart, Jackson, Legg, Pickering)
- 2002: China (Xu, Zhu, Tang, Yang)
- 2004: United States (Vollmer, Komisarz, Benko, Sandeno)
- 2006: Australia (Barratt, Schipper, Reese, Lenton)
- 2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Heemskerk, Veldhuis, Kromowidjojo)
- 2010: China (Chen, Tang, Liu, Zhu)
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- 1927: Great Britain (Laverty, Davies, King, Cooper)
- 1931: Netherlands (Bouwmeester, Vierdag, Den Ouden, Braun)
- 1934: Netherlands (Selbach, Timmermans, Mastenbroek, Den Ouden)
- 1938: Denmark (Riise, Kraft, Ove-Petersen, Hveger)
- 1947: Denmark (Svendsen, Harup, Andersen, Nathansen)
- 1950: Netherlands (Masser, Termeulen, Linssen-Vaessen, Schuhmacher)
- 1954: Hungary (Gyenge, Sebő, Temes, Szőke)
- 1958: Netherlands (Schimmel, Lagerberg, Kraan, Gastelaars)
- 1962: Netherlands (Gastelaars, Lasterie, Terpstra, Tigelaar)
- 1966: Soviet Union (Sipchenko, Rudenko, Ustinova, Sosnova)
- 1970: East Germany (Wetzko, Komar, Sehmisch, Schulze)
- 1974: East Germany (Ender, Franke, Eife, Hübner)
- 1977: East Germany (Treiber, Wächtler, Priemer, Krause)
- 1981: East Germany (Meineke, Metschuck, Diers, Link)
- 1983: East Germany (Otto, Link, Sirch, Meineke)
- 1985: East Germany (Strauss, König, Stellmach, Friedrich)
- 1987: East Germany (Stellmach, Friedrich, Otto, Meißner)
- 1989: East Germany (Meißner, Stellmach, Hunger, Friedrich)
- 1991: Netherlands (Van der Plaats, De Bruijn, Mastenbroek, Brienesse)
- 1993: Germany (Van Almsick, Kielgass, Stellmach, Hunger)
- 1995: Germany (Van Almsick, Osygus, Kielgass, Hunger)
- 1997: Germany (Meißner, Osygus, Buschschulte, Völker)
- 1999: Germany (Meißner, Buschschulte, Van Almsick, Völker)
- 2000: Sweden (Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Kammerling, Alshammar)
- 2002: Germany (Meißner, Dallmann, Völker, Van Almsick)
- 2004: France (Figuès, Couderc, Mongel, Metella)
- 2006: Germany (Dallmann, Götz, Steffen, Liebs)
- 2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)
- 2010: Germany (Samulski, Lippok, Vitting, Schreiber)
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- 2005: Netherlands (Schreuder, Dekker, Groot, Veldhuis)
- 2006: Sweden (Kuras, Alshammar, Kammerling, Lillhage)
- 2007: Netherlands (Dekker, Schreuder, Kromowidjojo, Veldhuis)
- 2008: Netherlands (Schreuder, Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Veldhuis)
- 2009: Netherlands (Dekker, Schreuder, de Jonge, Kromowidjojo)
- 2010: Netherlands (Dekker, Heemskerk, Schreuder, Kromowidjojo)
- 2011: Germany (Steffen, Brandt, Schmiedel, Schreiber)
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- 2005: Netherlands (Schreuder, Nijhuis, Dekker, Veldhuis)
- 2006: Germany (Pietsch, Schäfer, Buschschulte, Samulski)
- 2007: Germany (Pietsch, Schäfer, Mehlhorn, Steffen)
- 2008: Netherlands (Kromowidjojo, Nijhuis, Schreuder, Veldhuis)
- 2009: Netherlands (Schreuder, Nijhuis, Dekker, Kromowidjojo)
- 2010: Netherlands (Schreuder, Nijhuis, Dekker, Kromowidjojo)
- 2011: Denmark (Nielsen, Moeller-Pedersen, Ottesen, Blume)
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| Persondata |
| Name |
Kromowidjojo, Ranomi |
| Alternative names |
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| Short description |
Swimmer |
| Date of birth |
August 20, 1990 |
| Place of birth |
Groningen, Netherlands |
| Date of death |
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