Robert Lijesen is a
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Swimmer, who is specialized in the 50 and 100 m
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. He is currently trained by former world champion
Marcel WoudaMarcel Reinier Wouda is a former Dutch swimmer, who became Holland's first world champion when he won the world title in the 200 m individual medley at the FINA 1998 World Aquatics Championships in Perth, Australia...
at the same club as multiple olympic champion
Pieter van den HoogenbandPieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...
. He holds the European record in the 4×100 m freestyle
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together with
Bas van VelthovenBas van Velthoven is a Dutch Swimmer who specializes in freestyle. He is currently training in Amsterdam together with Nick Driebergen, Femke Heemskerk and Chantal Groot with coach Martin Truijens...
,
Mitja ZastrowMitja Kolia Zastrow is a Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. Originally from Germany, Zastrow was born and raised in Wuppertal, near Düsseldorf. He became a naturalized Dutch citizen in July 2003, after a conflict with the German Swimming Association...
and
Robin van AggeleRobin van Aggele is an Olympic and national-record-holding swimmer from the Netherlands who is the most all-round Dutch swimmer since Marcel Wouda....
in 3:09.18 swum during the
World SC Championships 2008The 9th FINA Swimming World Championships were held at the Manchester Evening News Arena, in Manchester, England April 9 – April 13 2008....
in
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they finished second in this event behind the
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who swum a world record in the same race.
Swimming career
Lijesen made his international senior debut at the
2006 FINA Short Course World ChampionshipsThe 8th FINA World Swimming Championships were held at the Qizhong Forest Sports City Arena in Shanghai, China from April 5 to April 9, 2006.-Medal table:-Freestyle:-Backstroke:-Breaststroke:-Butterfly:-Individual Medley:-Relays:...
in
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with the 23rd place in the 100 m freestyle.
2008
He was part of the team that broke the European record in the 4×100 m freestyle (SC) at the
2008 FINA Short Course World ChampionshipsThe 9th FINA Swimming World Championships were held at the Manchester Evening News Arena, in Manchester, England April 9 – April 13 2008....
alongside Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele winning a silver medal doing so. Individually he reached 17th place in the 50 m freestyle. With the 4×100 m medley relay he reached a 8th place together with
Bastiaan TammingaBastiaan Tamminga is a Dutch swimmer who specializes in the 50 m events of the backstroke, butterfly and freestyle. He is currently trained by former worldchampion Marcel Wouda alongside olympic champions Maarten van der Weijden and Hinkelien Schreuder.-Swimming career:Tamminga made his...
, van Aggele and
Joeri VerlindenJoeri Verlinden is a Dutch swimmer who specializes in butterfly and freestyle. He is currently trained by former world champion Marcel Wouda alongside olympic champions Maarten van der Weijden and Hinkelien Schreuder.-Swimming career:...
swimming a new national record.
A few weeks before at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in
Eindhoven he won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle, where he splitted faster than
Pieter van den HoogenbandPieter Cornelis Ruud Martijn van den Hoogenband is a Dutch former swimmer and a triple Olympic champion.-Personal life:...
who was later revealed suffered from the flu. Individually he ended 12th in the 100 m freestyle, in the 50 m freestyle he reached the final where he finished 6th.
At the
2008 Summer OlympicsThe 2008 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XXIX Olympiad, was a major international multi-sport event that took place in Beijing, China, from August 8 to August 24, 2008. A total of 11,028 athletes from 204 National Olympic Committees competed in 28 sports and 302 events...
he finished 10th in the 4×100 m freestyle with Zastrow, van den Hoogenband and van Velthoven. In the 50 m freestyle, his only individual start, he reached a 32nd spot.
See also
- List of swimmers
- Dutch records in swimming
Below is the complete list of the Dutch records in swimming, which are ratified by the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation .-Men:-Women:-Men:-Women:...
- European records in swimming
The European records in swimming are the fastest times ever swum by a swimmer representing a member federation of the Ligue Européenne de Natation , Europe's governing body of swimming....
Personal bests
EWLINE
| Short course |
| Event |
Time |
Date |
Location |
| 50 m freestyle |
21.72 |
2008-12-19 |
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|
| 100 m freestyle |
47.42 |
2008-12-21 |
Amsterdam, Netherlands |
|
EWLINE
| Long course |
| Event |
Time |
Date |
Location |
| 50 m freestyle |
22.40 |
2008-12-05 |
Eindhoven, NetherlandsThe Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
|
| 100 m freestyle |
49.71 |
2008-03-21 |
Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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