Patricia Stokkers (born May 1, 1976 in
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Net ...
) is a former
freestyle swimmer from the
Netherlands
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, who competed for her native country at the
1996 Summer Olympics
The 1996 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXVI Olympiad, also known as Atlanta 1996 and commonly referred to as the Centennial Olympic Games) were an international multi-sport event held from July 19 to August 4, 1996, in Atlanta, ...
in
Atlanta, Georgia
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. There she finished in sixth position (8:08.48) with the 4×200 m freestyle relay, alongside
Carla Geurts
Carla Geurts (born 20 April 1971) is a former Dutch freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia for the Netherlands. Geurts won three silver medals during her ...
,
Minouche Smit, and
Kirsten Vlieghuis. A year earlier the four of them won the silver medal in the same event at the
European LC Championships in
Vienna, Austria
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References
Dutch Olympic Committee
1976 births
Living people
Dutch female freestyle swimmers
Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
20th-century Dutch women
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