Thamar Henneken

Thamar Henneken
Personal information
Full nameThamar Nanette Henneken
Nationality Netherlands
Born (1979-08-02) 2 August 1979
Delft, South Holland
Height1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight72 kg (159 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubPSV Eindhoven
Medal record
Women's swimming
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place2000 Sydney[1]4×100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Silver medal – second place1999 Hong Kong4×100 m freestyle

Thamar Nanette Henneken (born 2 August 1979 in Delft, South Holland) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands. She was a member of the Dutch Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay team (alongside Inge de Bruijn, Wilma van Hofwegen and Manon van Rooijen) that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia.

After the Sydney Games, she tried to switch to rowing, but soon returned to swimming. She is engaged to former world champion Marcel Wouda. The couple had a baby in early 2005.

References

  1. ↑ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". Archived from the original on 7 September 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2009.
This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.