Sharon van Rouwendaal

Sharon van Rouwendaal
Sharon van Rouwendaal 2015
Personal information
Surname:	Sharon van Rouwendaal
Nation:	Netherlands
Swimming style (s) :	Freestyle, back
Society:	AAS Sarcelles Natation 95
Birthday:	September 9, 1993
Place of birth:	Baarn
Size:	172 cm
Weight:	64 kg
Medal table

Sharon van Rouwendaal (born September 9, 1993 in Baarn ) is a Dutch swimmer . She competes in both open water and pool swimming and specializes in freestyle and back swimming.

Career

Sharon van Rouwendaal was born in Baarn and grew up in Soest in the province of Utrecht . She later moved to France with her parents but returned to the Netherlands in 2009 to train in Eindhoven . She has lived in France again since 2013 and trained with Philippe Lucas in Narbonne .

She first appeared internationally in 2008 when she won gold once and silver three times over the medium and long distances in freestyle at the European Junior Championships in Belgrade . In the same year she made her debut at the European Short Course Championships in Rijeka in the senior category and finished 12th and 17th respectively in the 800 and 400 m freestyle. In the following years she specialized increasingly in the backstroke under her coach Marcel Wouda in Eindhoven and won the European Short Course Championships 2010 in Eindhoven with silver over 100 and 200 m back, her first international medals among seniors. At the 2011 World Championships in Shanghai , she won bronze over the 200 m backseat, and thus for the first time a World Cup precious metal. She took part in the 2012 Olympic Games in London , where she finished sixth with the Dutch layer relay. In her two individual starts, she was eliminated over 100 m backs in the prelims and over 200 m backs in the semifinals.

Since returning to France, Sharon van Rouwendaal has concentrated on freestyle swimming again. In 2013 she won bronze in the 800 m freestyle at the European Short Course Championship and started swimming in open water for the first time in 2014. At the European Championships in Berlin she won gold over the 10 km and in the team competition over 5 km and silver over 5 km. She also took part in pool competitions and won silver in the 400 m freestyle; She finished fifth over the 800 m. At the 2014 World Short Course Championships in Doha , she won silver over the 400 m freestyle and bronze over the 800 m. She was also part of the Dutch 4 × 200 m relay, which won gold in a world record time.

At the 2015 World Championships in Kazan , van Rouwendaal started again in both open water and pool swimming. In the open water competitions she was fourth over 5 km and won silver both over 10 km and in the team competition together with Marcel Schouten and Ferry Weertman . In the pool she won another silver medal in the 400 m freestyle. In addition, she reached the finals over 1500 m and 800 m freestyle and was sixth and eighth. At the European Short Course Championships in Netanya in 2015 , she won bronze in the 800 m freestyle like two years earlier, and came fifth over half the distance. In 2016 she reached the finals over 400 and 800 m freestyle at the European Championships in pool swimming in London , where she was sixth and eighth respectively. At the European Open Water Championships in Hoorn she won bronze over 5 km and was fourth over 10 km.

Sharon van Rouwendaal has also been the Dutch champion several times since 2008 on the long and short course in freestyle, back and butterfly swimming .

Best times and records

Personal bests
discipline	Long track			Short course
200 m freestyle	01: 58.12 min	December 12, 2014	Amsterdam	01: 56.22 min	December 19, 2010	Dubai
400 m freestyle	NR 04: 03.02 min	2nd August 2015	Kazan	NR 03: 57.76 min	5th December 2014	Doha
800 m freestyle	NR 08: 24.12 min	August 8, 2015	Kazan	NR 08: 08.17 min	4th December 2014	Doha
1500 m freestyle	NR 16: 03.37 min	July 9, 2015	Bucharest	NR 15: 48.67 min	22nd November 2014	Montpellier
5000 m freestyle	NR 56: 23.05 min	February 7, 2015	Sarcelles	-
100 m back	01:00, 14 min	July 25, 2011	Shanghai	00: 57.91 min	November 16, 2010	Eindhoven
200 m back	NR 02: 07.78 min	July 30, 2011	Shanghai	NR 02: 02.47 min	December 16, 2011	Atlanta
200 m butterfly	NR 02: 08.74 min	2nd April 2015	Limoges	NR 02: 06.20 min	20th November 2014	Montpellier
400 m layers	04: 48.19 min	April 20, 2008	Dunkerque	NR 04: 33.15 min	23rd November 2014	Montpellier
World record
4 × 200 m freestyle short course (together with Inge Dekker , Femke Heemskerk and Ranomi Kromowidjojo )				07: 32.85 min	3rd December 2014	Doha
NR = Dutch record; As of July 30, 2016

Web links

Commons : Sharon van Rouwendaal  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Sharon van Rouwendaal in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Sharon Van Rouwendaal in the database of Swimrankings.net (English)
• Results at the-sports.org (English)
• Profile at zwemkroniek.com (Dutch)
• Sharon van Rouwendaal website (Dutch)