Carla Geurts
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Full name | Carla Louise Maria Geurts | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Geldrop, Netherlands | 20 April 1971||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 62 kg (137 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Nuenen, De Dolfijn, UZSC, UNB Reds, PSV | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Carla Geurts (born 20 April 1971) is a former Dutch freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia for the Netherlands. Geurts won three silver medals during her career at the European Swimming Championships. She retired in 2001, after the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka.
Guerts was born in Geldrop. In September 2006, she was a professor of Kinesiology and Physiology at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Geurts Currently resides in Ottawa and works at the University de Ottawa as a Professor of Kinesiology and Physiology.
References
[edit]- Dutch Olympic Committee
- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Carla Geurts". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
Categories:
- 1971 births
- Academic staff of Brock University
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Dutch female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Geldrop
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- 20th-century Dutch women
- Dutch swimming biography stubs