Mark Veens
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Full name | Mark Hermanus Maria Veens | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Venray, Limburg, Netherlands | 26 June 1978|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Mark Hermanus Maria Veens (born 26 June 1978 in Venray, Limburg) is a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at three consequentive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia as a member of the 4×100 m freestyle (fifth place).
Veens' finest hour came at the 1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Sheffield, where he ended up in second place in the 50 m freestyle. Half a year later, at the 1997 FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m) in Hong Kong, he won the bronze medal in the 50 m freestyle.
See also[]
- Dutch records in swimming
References[]
- ^ "2004 Olympic Games swimming results". CNN. Retrieved 2007-07-22.
Categories:
- 1978 births
- Living people
- Dutch male swimmers
- Dutch male freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic swimmers of the Netherlands
- People from Venray
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Dutch swimming biography stubs