Ranomi Kromowidjojo

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Ranomi Kromowidjojo Personal information Full name: Ranomi Kromowidjojo Nationality:  Netherlands Stroke(s): freestyle, backstroke Club: Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven Date of birth: August 20, 1990 (1990-08-20) (age 18) Place of birth: Groningen, Netherlands Height: 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[1] Weight: 67 kilograms (150 lb)

Medal record Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing 4x100m Freestyle[2] World Championships (LC) Bronze 2007 Melbourne 4x100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) Gold 2008 Manchester 4x200m Freestyle European Championships (LC) Gold 2008 Eindhoven 4x100 m freestyle Silver 2006 Budapest 4x100 m freestyle European Championships (SC) Gold 2008 Rijeka 4x50 m freestyle Gold 2008 Rijeka 4x50 m medley Gold 2007 Debrecen 4x50 m freestyle Bronze 2008 Rijeka 100 m freestyle

Ranomi Kromowidjojo (born August 20, 1990 in Groningen, Netherlands) is a Dutch swimmer^[3] who mainly specializes in Freestyle but also has potential in Backstroke and Butterfly events. As part of the Dutch team, she holds the world records on the 4x50 m^[4] and 4x200 m^[5] freestyle relay on short course and 4x100 m freestyle relay on long course.^[6]

Contents 1 Swimming career 1.1 2007 1.2 Spring 2008 1.3 2008 Olympics 1.4 Fall 2008 2 Personal bests 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] Swimming career

After winning medals at the European Junior Swimming Championships in 2005 and 2006 she made her international senior debut at the European LC Championships 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. She immediately won her first international senior medal in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, alongside Inge Dekker, Chantal Groot and Marleen Veldhuis, at the age of 15.

[edit] 2007

She then qualified for her first World Championships. At the World LC Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia she won a bronze medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay together with Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. Individually she finished 13th in the 100 freestyle. At the end of 2007 she swam the A-standard for the 2008 Summer Olympics in the 50 m and 100 m freestyle and swam the world record in the 4x100 m freestyle Short course, with Hinkelien Schreuder, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis, at the Dutch Open Swim Cup. In the week afterwards she competed in the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 in Debrecen, Hungary. There she swum another world record in the 4x50 m freestyle Short course together with Hinkelien Schreuder, Inge Dekker and Marleen Veldhuis.

[edit] Spring 2008

In 2008 her first big tournament was the European LC Championships 2008 in Eindhoven. In the 4x100 m freestyle she won the gold medal and with the team: Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. They broke the worldrecord, the new standard is 3:33.62. With the same team she ended up 4th in the 4x200 m freestyle. Individually she ended 9th in the 200 m freestyle. A few weeks later at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships in Manchester she won the world title in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and broke another world again with Dekker, Heemskerk and Veldhuis. After the heats 100 m freestyle she withdraw from the tournament with an elbow injury.

[edit] 2008 Olympics

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she won the gold medal in the 4x100 m freestyle. Again alongside Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis in a time of 3:33.76 just outside of their own world record. The day-after she started individually in the 200 m freestyle ending 23rd in the heats. She was also part of both the 4x200 m freestyle and 4x100 m medley relay teams. In both relays she failed to qualify for the finals with her team mates.

[edit] Fall 2008

At the end of the year Ranomi took part in several championships. She started with the Swim Cup Eindhoven 2008, where she broke the national record in the 50 m backstroke long course, her first individual national record, and qualified for the 2009 World Aquatics Championships in the 100 m freestyle. One week afterwards she took part in the European SC Championships 2008 in Rijeka, Croatia. Where she won two gold medals, in the 4x50 m freestyle and 4x50 m medley relay, and a bronze medal in the 100 m freestyle behind Marleen Veldhuis and Jeanette Ottesen. She also became sixth in the 50 m backstroke.

[edit] Personal bests

Short course[7][8] Event Time Date Location 50 m freestyle 24.49 2007-12-16 Debrecen, Hungary 100 m freestyle 52.22 2008-12-12 Rijeka, Croatia 200 m freestyle 1:58.14 2007-10-14 Aachen, Germany 400 m freestyle 4:16.31 2007-??-?? Groningen, Netherlands 50 m backstroke 27.08 2008-12-13 Rijeka, Croatia 100 m backstroke 1:01.66 2008-03-08 Drachten, Netherlands 50 m butterfly 26.74 2008-11-22 Eindhoven, Netherlands 100 m butterfly 1:01.80 2008-05-24 Groningen, Netherlands

Long course[7][8] Event Time Date Location 50 m freestyle 24.92 2008-12-05 Eindhoven, Netherlands 100 m freestyle 54.01 2008-12-06 Eindhoven, Netherlands 200 m freestyle 1:59.77 2008-03-22 Eindhoven, Netherlands 50 m backstroke NR 28.70 2008-12-05 Eindhoven, Netherlands 100 m backstroke 1:05.90 2007-06-03 Amsterdam, Netherlands 50 m butterfly 27.11 2007-12-08 Eindhoven, Netherlands 100 m butterfly 1:04.51 2007-01-28 Luxemburg, Luxemburg

[edit] See also

• List of swimmers
• Dutch records in swimming

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Ranomi.nl (official website)
• Ranomi.web-log.nl (weblog)

v • d • e Olympic Champions in Women's 4×100 m Freestyle Relay 1912: USA (Moore, Fletcher, Speirs, Steer) | 1920: USA (Woodridge, Schroth, Guest, Bleibtrey) | 1924: USA (Donnelly, Ederle, Lackie, Wehselau) | 1928: USA (Lambert, Osipowich, Saville, Norelius) | 1932: USA (Helen Johns, Saville, McKim, Madison) | 1936: NED (Selbach, Wagner, den Ouden, Mastenbroek) | 1948: USA (Corridon, Kalama, Helser, Curtis) | 1952: HUN (Novák, Temes, Novák, Szöke) | 1956: AUS (Fraser, Leech, Morgan, Crapp) | 1960: USA (Spillane, Stobs, Wood, von Saltza) | 1964: USA (Stouder, de Varona, Watson, Ellis) | 1968: USA (Barkman, Gustavson, Pedersen, Henne) | 1972: USA (Babashoff, Barkman, Kemp, Neilson) | 1976: USA (Peyton. Sterkel, Babashoff, Boglioli) | 1980: GDR (Krause, Metschuck, Diers, Hülsenbeck) | 1984: USA (Johnson, Steinseifer, Torres, Hogshead) | 1988: GDR (Otto, Meißner, Hunger, Manuela Stellmach) | 1992: USA (Haislett, Martino, Thompson, Torres) | 1996: USA (Martino, Van Dyken, Fox, Thompson) | 2000: USA (Van Dyken, Shealy, Thompson, Torres) | 2004: AUS (Mills, Lenton, Thomas, Henry) | 2008: NED (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis) |

v • d • e World Short Course Champions in Women's 4×200 m Freestyle Relay  1993: PR China (Shan Ying, Zhou Guanbin, Le Jingyi, Lu Bin) •  1995: Canada (Limpert, Shakespeare, Evanetz, Malar) •  1997: PR China (Luna Wang, Nian Yin, Chen Yan, Shan Ying) •  1999: Sweden (Lillhage, Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Svahnström) •  2000: Great Britain (Huddart, Jackson, Legg, Pickering) •  2002: PR China (Xu Yanvei, Zhu Yingwen, Tang Jingzhi, Yang Yu) •  2004: United States (Vollmer, Komisarz, Benko, Sandeno) •  2006: Australia (Barratt, Schipper, Reese, Lenton) •  2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Heemskerk, Veldhuis, Kromowidjojo)