Hennie van der Velde (born 9 July 1944) is a Dutch former

swimmer Swimming is an individual or team racing sport that requires the use of one's entire body to move through water. The sport takes place in pools or open water (e.g., in a sea or lake). Competitive swimming is one of the most popular Olympic ...

. She competed in the

women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay A woman is an adult female human. Prior to adulthood, a female human is referred to as a girl (a female child or adolescent). The plural ''women'' is sometimes used in certain phrases such as "women's rights" to denote female humans regardl ...

at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

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* 1944 births Living people Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands Swimmers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Utrecht (city) Dutch female freestyle swimmers 20th-century Dutch women {{Netherlands-swimming-bio-stub