Martina Eva van Berkel-Schwartz (born 23 January 1989 in Bülach) is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in butterfly events. She currently holds several Swiss records in the 100 and 200 m butterfly. Van Berkel also trains for the Limmat Sharks in Zurich under her personal coach Dirk Reinicke. She is the sister of one of the nation's prominent triathletes Jan van Berkel, who forged and motivated her to compete internationally in swimming. Van Berkel qualified for the women's 200 m butterfly at the

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, by blasting a Swiss record and clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 2:09.68 from the

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. She challenged seven other swimmers on the second heat, including defending Olympic bronze medalist

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of Australia. Van Berkel raced to seventh place by exactly three seconds behind Canada's

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in 2:12.25. Van Berkel failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminaries.

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1989 births Living people Swiss female butterfly swimmers Olympic swimmers for Switzerland Swimmers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Swimmers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Bülach Universiade medalists in swimming FISU World University Games silver medalists for Switzerland Medalists at the 2017 Summer Universiade {{Switzerland-swimming-bio-stub