Nancy Kemp-Arendt (born 22 May 1969, in Esch-sur-Alzette), née Nancy Arendt, is a politician and former athlete from

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. She competed in

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and swimming. She now sits in the national legislature, the

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, for the

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. Kemp-Arendt competed under her maiden name, Nancy Arendt, at the

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, in

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. Participating in the 100m breaststroke and 200m breaststroke, she finished twenty-ninth and thirty-first respectively. After converting to triathlon, Kemp-Arendt competed in that sport's first appearance in the Summer Olympics, in 2000. She took tenth place with a total time of 2:03:14.94. She has won the title of

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a total of six times – two for swimming and four for triathlon – making her the only athlete (male or female) to have won it for success in two different sports. After her early sporting success, Arendt went into politics, becoming a member for the

(CSV) in 1993. She was appointed to the

to fill a vacancy on 23 January 1996, and finished out the term until the

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in 1999. In that election, she finished eleventh on the CSV list for the

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constituency, with seven being elected. However, this was high enough to ensure her replacement of Ady Jung on 3 June 2003, in whose place she served until the following year. She placed eleventh again in the following election, but on a landslide CSV victory that saw nine CSV members elected from Sud, allowing her to be appointed to fill one of three minister-vacated seats, and has sat in the Chamber since then.

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External links

Chamber of Deputies official website biography
* * * * Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg) Christian Social People's Party politicians Luxembourgian female swimmers Luxembourgian female triathletes Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics Triathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics Luxembourgian sportsperson-politicians 1969 births Living people Sportspeople from Esch-sur-Alzette Olympic swimmers for Luxembourg Female breaststroke swimmers Olympic triathletes for Luxembourg {{triathlon-bio-stub