Jasper Aerents (born 18 December 1992) is a Belgian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.

Career

He won two bronze medals, as a member of the Belgian swimming team, in the 4×50 m freestyle relay at the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Szczecin, Poland, and at the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in

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. He also captured a silver medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 2010 European Junior Swimming Championships in Helsinki, Finland by a quarter of a second (0.25) behind Ukraine's

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, in a personal best of 22.79. Aerents is a member of Regal Swimming Club ( nl, Koninklijke Brugse Zwemkring) in Belgium, and is coached and trained by Rik Valcke. Aerents qualified for two swimming events at the

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, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 22.42 (50 m freestyle) from the Nancy Long Course Invitational in

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. He also teamed up with

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, and

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in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay. Swimming the second leg, Aerents recorded a split of 48.34, but the Belgian team rounded out the finale to last place in 3:14.40. In the 50 m freestyle, Aerents topped the fifth heat by 0.21 of a second ahead of China's

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in 22.43, just a 0.01-second deficit from his entry time and personal best. Aerents failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-second out of 58 swimmers in the preliminaries.

References

External links

NBC Olympics Profile
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