Ineke Yvonne Ran (born 20 April 1962, in

Badhoevedorp Badhoevedorp is a town in the municipality of Haarlemmermeer in the province of North Holland, Netherlands. It lies next to the Ringvaart around Haarlemmermeer, the canal around the former Lake Haarlem, at the side of the polder bordering Amsterd ...

) is a former freestyle and

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swimmer from the

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, who competed for her native country at the

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, Canada. She was eliminated in the preliminaries for 100m and 200m freestyle and 100m butterfly. She swam in the preliminaries for the Dutch relay team that ended up in fifth place in the 4 × 100 m medley. As part of the freestyle team she was 4th in the 4 × 100 m relay, together with

Enith Brigitha Enith Sijtje Maria Brigitha (born 15 April 1955) is a former leading competitive swimmer in the 1970s. She twice represented the Netherlands at the Summer Olympics, starting in 1972 (Munich, West Germany). She won two bronze medals at the 1976 ...

Linda Faber Linda Faber (born 29 February 1960 in Veenendaal, Utrecht) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who competed for her native country at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. She was eliminated in the preliminaries ...

and

Annelies Maas Annelies Maas (born 25 January 1960 in Wageningen) is a former Freestyle swimming, freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in Swimming at the ...

. She won two medals at the

1977 European Aquatics Championships The 1977 European Aquatics Championships were held at the swimming complex Rosenlundsbadet in the southern Swedish city of Jönköping, from 14 August to 21 August. Besides swimming, there were titles contested in diving, the women's event of syn ...

, bronze in 100m butterfly and silver 4 × 100 m freestyle relay.EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN)
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