Five swimmers living and training in the Eindhoven region managed to qualify for the world championships in Singapore. The athletes managed to qualify via the National Championship or via selection for the World Long Course Swimming Championships, from 27 July to 3 August.
Out of the 13 players selected for the Dutch swimming team at the World Cup, five are training at the Pieter van den Hoogenband Swimming Stadium at the Tongelreep: Thomas Jansen, Nyls Korstanje, Sam van Nunen, Marrit Steenbergen and Maaike de Waard.
Gold
In long track swimming, the events are divided into distances and types of strokes. Think freestyle, backstroke, butterfly stroke and breaststroke in 200 metres, for example. The most successful sports swimmer from the region going to the World Championships in Singapore is Marrit Steenbergen from Geldrop. At the previous World Championships, she won gold in the 100-metre freestyle and with the relay team in the 4×100-metre freestyle. Earlier, she captured bronze twice: at the 2016 World Championships with the 4×100-metre freestyle relay and in 2022 on the 4×100-metre medley.
Water sports
TeamNL is yet to announce which event each swimmer will compete in at the World Championships. The Dutch team will leave for Singapore in the second half of July. When they arrive in the Asian country, there are also world championships of several other water sports, such as water polo, diving and synchronised swimming.
Source: Studio040.nl
Translated by: Anitha Sevugan
