Danielle Villars (born 6 March 1993) is a Swiss swimmer who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She has won multiple Swiss titles and currently holds four national records in both freestyle and butterfly (100 and 200 m). Villars is a resident athlete for the Limmat Sharks, and is coached and trained by Dirk Reinicke. Villars made her international debut at the

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in Singapore, where she rounded out the finale to eighth place in the 100 (57.72) and 200 m freestyle (2:04.89). At the

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in London, Villars maintained her program by qualifying for two swimming events. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 59.57 (100 m butterfly) from the

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in Debrecen, Hungary, and 2:01.47 (200 m freestyle) from the Olympic trials in Zurich. In the

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, Villars broke her own Swiss record of 59.42 to share a top seed in the second heat and a twenty-sixth-place tie with Spain's

Judit Ignacio Sorribes Judit Ignacio Sorribes (born 18 March 1994) is a Spanish swimmer who competes in the women's 100-metre butterfly. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012 ...

on the first day of the Games. In the 200 m freestyle, Villars raced to second place on the first heat by 1.06 seconds behind Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang, outside her personal best of 2:03.55. Villars failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall in the preliminaries. Shortly after her first Olympics, Villars attended

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in Dallas, Texas, where she was a biology major, and trained as a varsity swimmer for the SMU Mustangs.

References

External links

Player Bio – SMU Mustangs

1993 births Living people Swiss female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Switzerland Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics Swiss female freestyle swimmers SMU Mustangs women's swimmers Sportspeople from Zürich 21st-century Swiss women {{Switzerland-swimming-bio-stub