- Maria Vierdag
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Medal record Women's swimming Competitor for 
NetherlandsOlympic Games Silver 1932 Los Angeles 4×100 m freestyle European Championships Gold 1927 Bologna 100 m freestyle Gold 1931 Paris 4×100 m freestyle Silver 1927 Bologna 4×100 m freestyle Maria "Rie" Vierdag (22 September 1905 – 17 July 2005) was a Dutch swimmer who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics, 1928 Summer Olympics and 1932 Summer Olympics.
In the 1924 Olympics she was sixth in the 100 m freestyle event and sixth in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event. She was also fourth in her first round heat of 400 m freestyle event and did not advance.
Four years later she was disqualified in the final of 4×100 m freestyle event and she was fifth in the semifinal of 100 m freestyle event and did not advance.
In the 1932 Olympics she won a silver medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay event. She was also fourth in her first round heat of the 100 m freestyle event and did not advance.
She was born in Amersfoort and died in Amsterdam.
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European Champions in Women's 100 m Freestyle 1927: Maria Vierdag (NED) • 1931: Yvonne Godard (FRA) • 1934: Willy den Ouden (NED) • 1938: Ragnhild Hveger (DEN) • 1947: Fritzie Nathansen (DEN) • 1950: Irma Schumacher (NED) • 1954: Katalin Szőke (HUN) • 1958: Kate Jobson (SWE) • 1962: Heidi Pechstein (GDR) • 1966: Martina Grunert (GDR) • 1970: Gabriele Wetzko (GDR) • 1974: Kornelia Ender (GDR) • 1977: Barbara Krause (GDR) • 1981: Caren Metschuck (GDR) • 1983: Birgit Meineke (GDR) • 1985: Heike Friedrich (GDR) • 1987: Kristin Otto (GDR) • 1989: Katrin Meißner (GDR) • 1991: Catherine Plewinski (FRA) • 1993: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 1995: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 1997: Sandra Völker (GER) • 1999: Sue Rolph (GBR) • 2000: Therese Alshammar (SWE) • 2002: Franziska van Almsick (GER) • 2004: Malia Metella (FRA) • 2006: Britta Steffen (GER) • 2008: Marleen Veldhuis (NED) • 2010: Francesca Halsall (GBR)
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:- 1905 births
- 2005 deaths
- Dutch swimmers
- Female freestyle swimmers
- Olympic swimmers of the Netherlands
- Swimmers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1932 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- People from Amersfoort
- Olympic medalists in swimming
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch swimming biography stubs
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