Femke Heemskerk
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Femke Heemskerk (born 21 September 1987) is an Olympic sprinter from the Netherlands whose coach is Marcel Wouda.
Swimming Career
- She won her first international medal at the 2007 FINA World Championships, a bronze medal in the 400m freestyle relay.
- She broke her first world record on the Dutch 400m freestyle relay in 2008.
- At the 2008 FINA World Short Course Championships, she won a silver medal in the 200m freestyle.
- At the 2008 Beijing Olympics, she won a gold medal in the 400m freestyle relay.
- At the 2011 FINA World Championships, she won gold on the 400m freestyle relay where she anchored the relay in the fastest split of the competition.
- At the 2009 FINA World Championships in Rome, she swam on the world record setting 4×100 freestyle relay, going 3rd and splitting 53.03.
- At the 2010 European Championships, she finished 3rd place in the 100m freestyle.
- At the 2011 FINA World Championships in Shanghai, she won the 4×100m freestyle relay with a field best split of 52.46.
- At the 2012 London Olympics, she finished second to the Australians in the 400m freestyle relay.
- At the 2013 FINA World Championships, she swam 52.86 on the 2nd leg of the 4×100m freestyle relay to a bronze medal.
- At the 2014 European Championships, she won 3 medals in both the 100m freestyle (silver, 53.64) and the 200m freestyle (bronze, 1:56.81) as well as the 4×100 free relay (silver).
- At the 2014 FINA Short Course World Championships, she won 4 golds and a bronze to boot in the 4×50m relay, 4×100m relay, 4×200 relay in a world record, a gold medal in the 100m freestyle (51.37) and a bronze medal in the 200m freestyle (1:51.69).
- At the 2015 FINA World Championships, she won 2 silvers in the women's and mixed 4×100m freestyle relays.
- She participated in the Tahiti Swimming Experience in Tahiti.
- At the 2017 FINA World Championships, she won the bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay and a silver medal in the 4x100m mixed freestyle relay.
- At the 2018 European Championships, she won 4 silver medals in the 100m freestyle (53.23) and 200m freestyle (1:56.72) and in the women’s and mixed 4×100m freestyle relays.
