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Pieter Van Den Hoogenband
Pieter Cornelis Martijn van den Hoogenband (; born 14 March 1978) is a Dutch retired swimmer. He is a triple Olympic champion and former world record holder. Early life Born in Maastricht, Limburg, he is the son of Cees-Rein van den Hoogenband and Astrid Verver, a former Dutch 800 m freestyle silver medalist at the European Junior Championships. He has a younger brother. He grew up in Geldrop, where he swam for PSV Eindhoven. His father is a team doctor with the professional football team of the same club. Russian swimmer and four-time Olympic gold medalist Alexander Popov was his role model. Swimming career Early career In 1993, Van den Hoogenband achieved his first success, performing well on the European Youth Olympic Days. Before the Atlanta Games, Astrid van den Hoogenband, who was coaching the Dutch team, became frustrated with the swimmers representing the Netherlands, feeling they had much potential but would not be able to live up to it due to lack of adequat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Freestyle Swimming
Freestyle is a category of swimming competition, defined by the rules of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), in which competitors are subject to a few limited restrictions on their swimming stroke. Freestyle races are the most common of all swimming competitions, with distances beginning with 50 meters (50 yards) and reaching 1500 meters (1650 yards), also known as the mile. The term 'freestyle stroke' is sometimes used as a synonym for 'front crawl', as front crawl is the fastest surface swimming stroke. It is now the most common stroke used in freestyle competitions. The first Olympics held open water swimming events, but after a few Olympics, closed water swimming was introduced. The front crawl or freestyle was the first event that was introduced. Technique Freestyle swimming implies the use of legs and arms for competitive swimming, except in the case of the individual medley or medley relay events. The front crawl is most commonly chosen by swimmers, as th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2000 Summer Olympics – Men's 50 Metre Freestyle
The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2000 Summer Olympics took place on 21–22 September at the Sydney International Aquatic Centre in Sydney, Australia. U.S. swimmers Gary Hall, Jr. and Anthony Ervin, who trained together at the Phoenix Swim Club, tied for the gold; they finished with a matching time of 21.98, edging out Dutch swimmer Pieter van den Hoogenband in 22.03. Italy's Lorenzo Vismara finished fourth in 22.11, while Poland's Bartosz Kizierowski was a fraction behind the leading pack in sixth at 22.22. Russia's double defending champion Alexander Popov finished outside the medals in sixth place with a time of 22.24. Great Britain's four-time Olympian Mark Foster (22.41) and Ukraine's Oleksandr Volynets (22.51) rounded out the finale. Earlier in the prelims, Volynets made a surprise packet with a ninth fastest time and a Ukrainian record of 22.52 to lead the sixth heat. Ervin stopped swimming competitively in 2003, auctioned off his gold medal on eBay to aid sur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2007 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 Metre Freestyle
The men's 200 metre freestyle event was the 10th event contested on the 2007 World Aquatics Championship for Swimming. The 15 heats began at 10:27, on 26 March 2007, at the Rod Laver Arena, in Melbourne Park Melbourne Park is a sports venue in the Melbourne Sports and Entertainment Precinct in Melbourne, Victoria (Australia), Victoria, Australia. Since 1988 Australian Bicentenary, Australia's bicentenary, Melbourne Park has been home of the Austra .... The semifinals started on the evening of the same day at 20:17. The final started at 19:00 on the following day, 27 March. Records Heats Semifinals Final References {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 200 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2007 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2007 World Aquatics Championships
The swimming competition at the 12th FINA World Aquatics Championships was held in Rod Laver Arena in Melbourne, Australia, from 25 March to 1 April 2007. This portion of the 2007 Worlds featured 40 events (20 for males, 20 for females), all swum in a long course (50 m) pool: * freestyle: 50 m, 100 m, 200 m, 400 m, 800 m and 1500 m; *backstroke: 50 m, 100 m and 200 m; * breaststroke: 50 m, 100 m and 200 m; *butterfly: 50 m, 100 m and 200 m; *individual medley (I.M.): 200 m and 400 m; and * relays: 4x100 m free, 4x200 m free, and 4x100 m medley. The 2007 World Championships served in qualifying for the Swimming portion at the 2008 Olympics in two ways: # It was the main relay qualifier, with the top-12 finishers in each relay automatically qualifying for the 16-entry field at the 2008 Olympics (the other 4 teams were filled with the 4 fastest remaining nations). # Those nati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 Metre Freestyle
The Men's 200 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 21–22 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats were on 21 July, while the FinalWorlds 2003 resultsMen's 200m Freestyle Final from OmegaTiming.com (official timer of the 2003 Worlds); Retrieved 2010-02-11. swam on 22 July. Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were both: *WR and CR: 1:44.06 swum by Ian Thorpe (Australia) on 25 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ... Results Final Semifinals Preliminaries References {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 200 Metre Freestyle Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2003 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 Metre Freestyle
The Men's 100 Freestyle event at the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships swam on 23–24 July 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Preliminary and Semifinal heats swam on July 23; while the Final2003 Worlds results: swam on July 24. Prior to the start of the event, the existing World (WR) and Championship (CR) records were: *WR: 47.84 by Pieter van den Hoogenband (Netherlands) swum on 19 September 2000 in Sydney, Australia *CR: 48.33 by Anthony Ervin (USA) swum on 27 July 2001 in Fukuoka, Japan is a Prefectures of Japan, prefecture of Japan located on the island of Kyūshū. Fukuoka Prefecture has a population of 5,109,323 (1 June 2019) and has a geographic area of 4,986 Square kilometre, km2 (1,925 sq mi). Fukuoka Prefecture borders S ... Results Final Semifinals Preliminaries References {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 100 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2003 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2003 World Aquatics Championships
The Swimming competition of the 10th FINA World Aquatics Championships consisted of 40 long course (50m) events, swum July 20–27, 2003 in Barcelona, Spain. Published by , last updated in 2011. Retrieved 2013-06-01. Swimming's 40 events were split evenly between males and females (20 each) and were: * freestyle (free): 50, 100, 200, 400, 800 and 1500; * (back): 50, 100 and 200; * [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 4 × 100 Metre Freestyle Relay
The men's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place in Marine Messe in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2001. Prior to this meet, the United States have never lost this race since the inception of the World Championships in 1973. The final of the relay was notable for Ian Thorpe's swimming the closing leg for Australia with his fastest-ever relay split of 47.87 s, for the 47.02 seconds final leg, the fastest relay leg in history by Pieter van den Hoogenband and for the disqualification after the race of the American team. Results Final (Michael Klim, Ashley Callus, Todd Pearson, Ian Thorpe) 3:14.10 (Mark Veens, Johan Kenkhuis, Klaas-Erik Zwering, Pieter van den Hoogenband) 3:14.56 European Record ( Stefan Herbst, Torsten Spanneberg, Lars Conrad, Sven Lodziewski) 3:17.52 4. 3:18.00 5. 3:19.37 6. 3:21.63 DQ 3:15.29 Disqualified for Nate Dusing replacing Gregory Busse without announcing the change at least one ho ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 200 Metre Freestyle
The men's 200-metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatic Championships took place 25 July. The heats and semi-finals were on 24 July. Results Heats Final Key: WR = World record ReferencesResults from swimrankings.net Retrieved 2012-08-14 {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 200 Metre Freestyle Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 100 Metre Freestyle
The men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships took place 27 July. The heats and semi-finals were held on 26 July. Results Heats Semi-finals Final ReferencesResults from swimrankings.net retrieved 2012-08-13* {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 100 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2001 World Aquatics Championships – Men's 50 Metre Freestyle
The men's 50 metre freestyle event at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships was held on 22 (heats and semifinals) and 23 July 2001 at the Fukuoka, Japan Japan ( ja, 日本, or , and formally , ''Nihonkoku'') is an island country in East Asia. It is situated in the northwest Pacific Ocean, and is bordered on the west by the Sea of Japan, while extending from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north .... Results Heats Semifinals Final References * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships - Men's 50 metre freestyle Swimming at the 2001 World Aquatics Championships ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Swimming At The 2001 World Aquatics Championships
The swimming events of the 2001 World Aquatics Championships were held in a temporary pool at Marine Messe in Fukuoka, Japan in July 2001. This edition of the championships featured 20 events for both men and women, including the introduction of a 50 m event in all strokes and equality in the distance freestyle events, with both men and women swimming both 800 and 1500 m. The swimming event resulted in eight world records and Australia topping the medal tally with 13 golds, although the USA claimed 26 total medals to 19 for Australia. The men's FINA Trophy (top individual performers) was awarded to Australia's Ian Thorpe for his three individual wins and three world records. Inge de Bruijn (the Netherlands) won the women's FINA Trophy for three individual wins. Australia swept the men's relays and won two of three of the women's relays, although were subsequently disqualified in the women's 4×200 m freestyle for a post-race infraction – jumping into the pool ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
