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, who has represented her country in many international championships since 1999. The best distance of Chantal Groot is the 50 m butterfly in which she won five European LC Championships medals, for the first time in 1999 in Istanbul, and became European Champion in 2008 in Eindhoven.
Swimming career
After winning a gold and a silver medal at the
European Junior Swimming Championships 1998
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in Antwerp she made her international debut at the
1999 FINA Short Course World Championships
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. Groot immediately won her first international medal, a silver, in the 4×100 m freestyle relay together with Thamar Henneken, Wilma van Hofwegen and
Inge de Bruijn
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. Individually she finished 14th in the 100 m butterfly. A few months later she competed in the
1999 European Aquatics Championships
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in
Istanbul
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. In the 50 m butterfly she won her first individual medal, at the age of 17, reaching third place behind Anna-Karin Kammerling and
Johanna Sjöberg
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. Chantal also reached the final of the 50 m freestyle ending up 7th. In the 4×100 m freestyle she finished fourth with the team.
2000
In 2000, she competed in the
2000 FINA Short Course World Championships
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Men's events
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in
Athens
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where an 11th place in the 50 m butterfly was her best result. At the
2000 European Aquatics Championships
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in
Helsinki
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she was in the finals of all three relay events but did not won a medal. Individually a 7th place in the 100 m butterfly was her best performance. Groot was also selected to take part in the
2000 Summer Olympics
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in Sydney. She swam in the heats of the 4×100 m freestyle but was replaced for the final by Inge de Bruijn, but still received a silver medal for her efforts in the heats. Individually she reached the semi-finals of the 100 m butterfly ending up 11th. In the two other relays there was no success.
Post Sydney Olympics
The
2001 World Aquatics Championships
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and the
2002 FINA Short Course World Championships
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were not successful for Groot.
At the
2002 European Aquatics Championships
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Berlin
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she won a bronze medal in the 50 m butterfly. She won also a bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay together with
Manon van Rooijen
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2003 World Aquatics Championships
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Barcelona
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where she finished 4th in the 4×100 m freestyle, 5th in the 50 m butterfly and 6th with the medley relay. In
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2004 European Aquatics Championships
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Madrid
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where she achieved to win three medals, silver in the 4×100 m freestyle alongside Inge Dekker, Annabel Kosten and Marleen Veldhuis. There was a bronze medal in the 50 m butterfly and another bronze in the 4×100 m medley together with
Stefanie Luiken
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Athens, Greece
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, where she was on the team that captured the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay, alongside
Inge de Bruijn
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2004 FINA Short Course World Championships
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Freestyle
Backstroke
Breaststroke
Butterfly
Medley
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in
Indianapolis, Indiana
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. During this tournament she ended 7th in both 100 m butterfly and 100 m freestyle. In December she captured her second European title in the 4×50 m freestyle relay at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2004 in
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and finished 7th again in the 100 m freestyle.
2005-2007
2005 wasn't a fantastic for Groot with a 4th place in the 4×100 m freestyle and 9th in the 50 m butterfly during the
2005 World Aquatics Championships
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Montreal, Quebec
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, Canada. At the end of the year she won the gold medal for the third time in a row in the 4×50 m freestyle at the
European Short Course Swimming Championships 2005
The European Short Course Championships 2005 were held in Trieste, Italy, from 8–11 December.
Medal table
Men's events
50 m freestyle
100 m freestyle
200 m freestyle
400 m freestyle
1500 m freestyle
50 m backstroke
100 m b ...
Shanghai
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. Together with Inge Dekker, Hinkelien Schreuder and Marleen Veldhuis, Groot set a world record and won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay in a time of 3:33.32. In the summer she took part in the
2006 European Aquatics Championships
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in
Budapest
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,
Hungary
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where she added a silver medal, in the 4×100 m freestyle with Dekker, Veldhuis and Ranomi Kromowidjojo, and a bronze medal, fourth time in her career, in the 50 m butterfly to her impressive collection of medals. In
Helsinki
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2007 World Aquatics Championships
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in
Melbourne
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, Australia where she was swum out of the 4×100 m freestyle team by teammate
Femke Heemskerk
Frederike Johanna Maria "Femke" Heemskerk (; born 21 September 1987) is a former Dutch competitive swimmerEuropean Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 was her best result of a disappointing year.
2008
In March 2008 Groot competed in her home country at the
2008 European Aquatics Championships
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where she finally became European Champion in the 50 m butterfly beating teammate Inge Dekker in the final, after having won the bronze medal four times in this event. In the 100 m butterfly she finished up 5th and qualified for the 2008 Summer Olympics. She started in the heats of the 4×100 m freestyle and 4×100 m medley but was replaced for the finals each time. In the second week of April she participated in the
2008 FINA Short Course World Championships
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The United States topped the medal table with 10 gold medals, though host team Great Britain took home the mos ...
in
Manchester
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. She started individually in the 100 m butterfly and reached a 6th place. She also swam in the heats of the 4×100 m medley but was replaced in the final by Inge Dekker. The Olympic Games in
Beijing
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were a disappointment because she ended 30th in the 100 m butterfly.