- Diana van der Plaats
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Diana van der Plaats Personal information Full name Adriana van der Plaats Nickname(s) "Diana" Nationality Netherlands Born August 12, 1971
UtrechtHeight 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) Weight 66 kilograms (150 lb) Sport Sport Swimming Stroke(s) Freestyle Club Zwemvereniging De Dolfijn Medal recordOlympic Games Silver 1988 Seoul 4×100 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Gold 1991 Athens 4×100 m freestyle Silver 1987 Strasbourg 4×100 m freestyle Silver 1989 Bonn 4×100 m freestyle Silver 1989 Bonn 4×200 m freestyle Bronze 1991 Athens 4×200 m freestyle Adriana (“Diana”) van der Plaats (born August 12, 1971 in Utrecht) is a former freestyle swimmer from The Netherlands, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. There she won the silver medal with the Dutch 4×100 m freestyle relay team, behind East Germany, after swimming in the qualifying heats. In the final she was replaced by Conny van Bentum. Three years later Van der Plaats captured the title in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1991 European Aquatics Championships in Athens, Greece, and won the bronze in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.
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European Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay 1927: Great Britain (Laverty, Davies, King, Cooper) • 1931: Netherlands (Bouwmeester, Vierdag, Den Ouden, Braun) • 1934: Netherlands (Selbach, Timmermans, Mastenbroek, Den Ouden) • 1938: Denmark (Riise, Kraft, Ove-Petersen, Hveger) • 1947: Denmark (Svendsen, Harup, Andersen, Nathansen) • 1950: Netherlands (Masser, Termeulen, Linssen-Vaessen, Schuhmacher) • 1954: Hungary (Gyenge, Sebő, Temes, Szőke) • 1958: Netherlands (Schimmel, Lagerberg, Kraan, Gastelaars) • 1962: Netherlands (Gastelaars, Lasterie, Terpstra, Tigelaar) • 1966: Soviet Union (Sipchenko, Rudenko, Ustinova, Sosnova) • 1970: East Germany (Wetzko, Komar, Sehmisch, Schulze) • 1974: East Germany (Ender, Franke, Eife, Hübner) • 1977: East Germany (Treiber, Wächtler, Priemer, Krause) • 1981: East Germany (Meineke, Metschuck, Diers, Link) • 1983: East Germany (Otto, Link, Sirch, Meineke) • 1985: East Germany (Strauss, König, Stellmach, Friedrich) • 1987: East Germany (Stellmach, Friedrich, Otto, Meißner) • 1989: East Germany (Meißner, Stellmach, Hunger, Friedrich) • 1991: Netherlands (Van der Plaats, De Bruijn, Mastenbroek, Brienesse) • 1993: Germany (Van Almsick, Kielgass, Stellmach, Hunger) • 1995: Germany (Van Almsick, Osygus, Kielgass, Hunger) • 1997: Germany (Meißner, Osygus, Buschschulte, Völker) • 1999: Germany (Meißner, Buschschulte, Van Almsick, Völker) • 2000: Sweden (Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Kammerling, Alshammar) • 2002: Germany (Meißner, Dallmann, Völker, Van Almsick) • 2004: France (Figuès, Couderc, Mongel, Metella) • 2006: Germany (Dallmann, Götz, Steffen, Liebs) • 2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis) • 2010: Germany (Samulski, Lippok, Vitting, Schreiber)
Categories:- 1971 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers of the Netherlands
- Dutch swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- People from Utrecht (city)
- Dutch swimming biography stubs
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