Klaas-Erik Zwering
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| Nationality | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 19 May 1981 Eindhoven, North Brabant | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke and freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | PSV Eindhoven | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Klaas-Erik Zwering (born 19 May 1981) is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club. His personal coach was Jacco Verhaeren, who is also coach for Dutch swimming phenom Pieter van den Hoogenband.
Zwering originally specialized in the 200 meter backstroke, coming in seventh place in his first senior competition at the European Championships in Istanbul. In the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he came in tenth place in the same event. Recently, however, he has been focusing exclusively on freestyle swimming.[citation needed]
In 2001 at the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Klaas-Erik was a member of the silver medal winning 4×100 meter freestyle relay team. Later, along with teammates Pieter van den Hoogenband, Johan Kenkhuis and Mitja Zastrow, Zwering won his first Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Afterwards he retired.[citation needed]
See also
[edit]External links
[edit]- (in Dutch) Zwemkroniek online profile
References
[edit]- Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Klaas-Erik Zwering". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
- ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. Archived from the original on 14 August 2004. Retrieved 22 July 2007.
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- 1981 births
- Living people
- Dutch male backstroke swimmers
- Dutch male freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Eindhoven
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Goodwill Games medalists in swimming
- Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games
- 21st-century Dutch people