Thamar Henneken
Appearance
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Full name | Thamar Nanette Henneken | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Delft, South Holland | 2 August 1979||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 72 kg (159 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||
Club | PSV Eindhoven | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
|
Thamar Nanette Henneken (born 2 August 1979 in Delft, South Holland) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch Women's 4×100 m freestyle relay team that won the silver medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. She did so alongside Inge de Bruijn, Wilma van Hofwegen and Manon van Rooijen.
After the Sydney Games she tried to succeed as a rower, but she soon returned to swimming. She is engaged to former world champion Marcel Wouda. The couple had a baby in early 2005.
References
[edit]- ^ "ESPN Sydney Swimming". Retrieved 14 March 2009.
Categories:
- 1979 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Delft
- Dutch female freestyle swimmers
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- Dutch female rowers
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- Dutch swimming biography stubs