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Klaas-Erik Zwering

Nationality	Netherlands
Stroke(s)	Backstroke and freestyle
Club	PSV Eindhoven
Date of birth	May 19, 1981 (1981-05-19) (age 28)
Place of birth	Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Weight	80 kilograms (180 lb)
Medal record Olympic Games Silver 2004 Athens[1] 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (LC) Silver 2001 Fukuoka 4×100 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Gold 1999 Istanbul 4×100 m medley

Klaas-Erik Zwering (born May 19, 1981 in Eindhoven, Noord-Brabant) is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club. His personal coach was Jacco Verhaeren, who is also coach for Dutch swimming phenom Pieter van den Hoogenband.

Zwering originally specialized in the 200 meter backstroke, coming in seventh place in his first senior competition at the European Championships in Istanbul. In the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he came in tenth place in the same event. Recently, however, he's been focusing exclusively on freestyle swimming.

In 2001 at the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Klaas-Erik was a member of the silver medal winning 4×100 meter freestyle relay team. Later, along with teammates Pieter van den Hoogenband, Johan Kenkhuis and Mitja Zastrow, Zwering won his first Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Afterwards he retired.

See also

• Dutch records in swimming

External links

• (Dutch) Zwemkroniek online profile

References

• sports-reference