Conny van Bentum
Dutch swimmer (born 1965)
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Full name | Cornelia van Bentum | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | (1965-08-12) 12 August 1965 (age 59) Barneveld, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Butterfly | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Cornelia "Conny" van Bentum (born 12 August 1965, in Barneveld) is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands.
Swimming career
Van Bentum competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1980. At each of those swimming tournaments she won a medal with the 4×100 m freestyle relay team: one bronze (1980), and two silvers (1984 and 1988).[1][2]
In 1988 she won the 'Open' ASA National British Championships over 50 metres freestyle, 100 metres freestyle and 200 metres freestyle.[3] She also won the 100 metres butterfly and the 200 metres butterfly titles in 1988.[4]
References
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- ^ Conny van Bentum Archived 2013-09-23 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Jean-Louis Meuret (2007), HistoFINA Volume IV – Tome IV[permanent dead link]. MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS. Special FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (50 m.) Before Rome 2009.
- ^ ""Results from Leeds." Times, 1 Aug. 1988, p. 31". Times Digital Archive.
- ^ "Downes, Steven. "Fast finish may end the hopes of Croft." Times, 29 July 1988, p. 37". Times Digital Archive.
External links
- Dutch Olympic Committee
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Preceded by | Dutch Sportswoman of the Year 1983 | Succeeded by |
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- 1959: Naomi Sacco (ITA)
- 1961: Anna-Karin Larsson (SWE)
- 1963: Csilla Madarász (HUN)
- 1965: Csilla Madarász (HUN)
- 1967: Linda Gustavson (USA)
- 1970: Mirjana Segrt (YUG)
- 1973: Sally Tuttle (USA)
- 1977: Jutta Weber (FRG)
- 1979: Tracy Caulkins (USA)
- 1981: Jill Sterkel (USA)
- 1983: Irina Laricheva (URS)
- 1985: Conny van Bentum (NED)
- 1987: Mitzi Kremer (USA)
- 1991: Zhuang Yong (CHN)
- 1993: Le Jingyi (CHN)
- 1995-1997: Martina Moravcová (SVK)
- 1999: Ioana Diaconescu (ROM)
- 2001-2005: Petra Dallmann (GER)
- 2007: Britta Steffen (GER)
- 2009: Hannah Wilson (HKG)
- 2011: Tang Yi (CHN)
- 2013: Aleksandra Gerasimenya (BLR)
- 2015: Shannon Vreeland (USA)
- 2017: Siobhán Haughey (HKG)
- 2019: Gabby DeLoof (USA)
- 2021: Zhang Yufei (CHN)
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