Carla Geurts

Carla Geurts

Personal information
Full name	Carla Louise Maria Geurts
Nationality	Netherlands
Born	(1971-04-20) 20 April 1971 Geldrop, Noord-Brabant
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Utrechtsche Zwemclub (UZC)
College team	Brock University
Medal record Women’s Swimming World Championships (SC) 1995 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle 1995 Rio de Janeiro 800 m freestyle 1997 Gothenburg 800 m freestyle European Championships (LC) 1993 Sheffield 5 km open water 1995 Vienna 400 m freestyle 1995 Vienna 4×200 m freestyle 1997 Seville 800 m freestyle European Championships (SC) 1996 Rostock 800 m freestyle 1998 Sheffield 400 m freestyle 1998 Sheffield 800 m freestyle

Carla Geurts (born 20 April 1971 in Geldrop, Noord-Brabant) is a former freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia for the Netherlands. Geurts won three silver medals during her career at the European Swimming Championships. She retired in 2001, after the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka.

Since September 2006, Geurts had been a professor of Kinesiology and Physiology at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Geurts lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, since marrying swimming coach Andrew Cole in 2003.

References

• Dutch Olympic Committee
• sports-reference