- Minouche Smit
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Medal record Women’s swimming Competitor for the Netherlands European Championships (LC) Silver 1995 Vienna 4×200 m freestyle Minouche Smit (born 6 March 1975 in Hoorn, Noord-Holland) is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.
There she finished in sixth position (8:08.48) with the 4×200 m freestyle relay, alongside Carla Geurts, Patricia Stokkers, and Kirsten Vlieghuis. A year earlier the four of them won the silver medal in the same event at the European LC Championships in Vienna, Austria. In Atlanta she was also on the women's relay team, that ended up in fourth place (3:42.40) in the 4×100 m freestyle, together with Marianne Muis, Wilma van Hofwegen, and Karin Brienesse. In her only individual start, in the 200 m individual medley, Smit finished in seventh position, clocking 2:16.73.
Smit married Dutch swimming star Pieter van den Hoogenband in 2005.
See also
References
1996 Dutch Olympic Swimming Team Men's competition Women's competition Madelon Baans • Karin Brienesse • Carla Geurts • Wilma van Hofwegen • Marianne Muis • Angela Postma • Minouche Smit • Brenda Starink • Patricia Stokkers • Kirsten Vlieghuis
Categories:- 1975 births
- Living people
- Dutch swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of the Netherlands
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- People from Hoorn
- Dutch swimming biography stubs
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