Mark Veens
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Surname: | Mark Hermanus Maria Veens | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nation: | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Swimming style (s) : | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Birthday: | June 26, 1978 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Place of birth: | Venray | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Size: | 1.89 m | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Hermanus Maria Veens (born June 26, 1978 in Venray ) is a Dutch swimmer .
Career
Mark Veens took part in three Summer Olympics from 1996 to 2004 . He qualified only as part of the Dutch 4 × 100 meter freestyle and in 2000 in Sydney additionally for the 4 × 100 meter relay.
In 1996 in Atlanta he took fifth place together with Pie Geelen , Martin van der Spoel and Pieter van den Hoogenband in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle.
Four years later, in Sydney in 2000, he was unable to repeat this result with the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay because he was disqualified with the relay in the preliminary run. To do this, he swam in the run-up to the Dutch 4 × 100 meter layer relay, which ultimately came in fourth.
In 2004 in Athens he won his only Olympic medal with the silver medal in the 4 × 100 meter freestyle. He started in the run-up instead of Pieter van den Hoogenband, who had spared himself for the final.
At the European Short Course Championships in 1998 in Sheffield , 2003 in Dublin and 2005 in Trieste , he improved the European record three times with the Dutch 4 × 50 meter freestyle relay . He was also able to set a new European record on the long track with the Dutch 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay, at the European Swimming Championships in Istanbul in 1999 and at the 2001 World Swimming Championships in Fukuoka .
Web links
- Profile at zwemkroniek.com (English)
- Mark Veen in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
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SURNAME | Veens, Mark |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Veens, Mark Hermanus Maria (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch swimmer |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 26, 1978 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Venray , Netherlands |