Jannah Sonnenschein (born 24 April 1996) is a Dutch–Mozambican

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. She competed in the

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event at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics ( pt, Jogos Olímpicos de Verão de 2016), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad ( pt, Jogos da XXXI Olimpíada) and also known as Rio 2016, was an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 20 ...

Personal life

Sonnenschein was born in the Dutch town of Kerkrade, but is originally from Amsterdam and moved shortly after her birth with her family to Mozambique. They spent most of their lives there and she did her schooling at American International School of Mozambique at Maputo. She graduated from New Mexico State University. From a young age, Sonnenschein trained with swimming club Golfinhos de Maputo, and achieved good early results. In 2011, She moved to the Netherlands at the age of 15 in order to train for her swimming career and competing in the Olympics.

Career

Since 2012, Sonnenschein lives in Eindhoven to train there with the association Eiffel Swimmers PSV. During 2014, Sonnenschein competed at the

2014 Commonwealth Games The 2014 Commonwealth Games ( gd, Geamannan a' Cho-fhlaitheis 2014), officially known as the XX Commonwealth Games and commonly known as Glasgow 2014, ( sco, Glesca 2014 or Glesga 2014; gd, Glaschu 2014), was an international multi-sport ev ...

in Scotland. In 2014 Sonnenschein also the first timecompeted at the

2014 Summer Youth Olympic Games The 2014 Summer Youth Olympics (), officially known as the II Summer Youth Olympic Games , and commonly known as Nanjing 2014 ( zh, c=南京2014, p=Nánjīng Èr Líng yī sì), were the second Summer Youth Olympic Games, an international sports, ...

in Nanjing, where she was flag bearer of the Mozambican delegation. She reached the 100m butterfly finals with a time of 1:03:50 minutes, reaching a new Mozambican national record. She was also the only Mozambican swimmer ever to qualify for the Summer Youth Olympic Games. Sonnenschein qualified well for the

in Rio de Janeiro and was part of the six-member delegation athletes Mozambique. In the 100m butterfly Sonnenschein participated in the preliminary round with a time of 1: 04.21 min with the 38th (of 45) places.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sonnenschein, Jannah 1996 births Living people Sportspeople from Kerkrade Swimmers from Amsterdam Sportspeople from Maputo Dutch female butterfly swimmers Mozambican female butterfly swimmers Commonwealth Games competitors for Mozambique Swimmers at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Olympic swimmers for Mozambique Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Place of birth missing (living people) Swimmers at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics Dutch emigrants to Mozambique Naturalized citizens of Mozambique Mozambican people of Dutch descent New Mexico State University alumni