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Marcel Wouda
| Personal
information |
| Full name |
Marcel Reinier Wouda |
| Nationality |
 Netherlands |
| Stroke(s) |
Individual medley |
| Club |
Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven |
| Date of birth |
23 January 1972 (1972-01-23)
(age 37) |
| Place of birth |
Tilburg, Netherlands |
| Height |
2.03 m (6 ft 8 in) |
| Weight |
92 kg (200 lb; 14.5 st) |
|
|
Marcel Reinier Wouda (born 23 January 1972 in
Tilburg, Noord-Brabant) 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. He is currently the coach of
Olympic Champions Maarten van der Weijden and Hinkelien
Schreuder at the Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven.
Swimming
career
Wouda grew up in Uden, where he
joined the 'De Zeester' swimming club at a very young age. His
trainers were Martien Swinkels and Rob Kennis, who brought him to
the top of Dutch swimming. Wouda made his Olympic debut at the 1992
Summer Olympics, where he was the sole male in the Dutch squad
of eight females ending 22nd in the 200 m individual medley
and 19th in the 400 m individual medley.
Move
to the United States
Afterwards he moved to the United States, where he joined University of Michigan in Ann
Arbor under the guidance of trainer-coach Jon Urbanchek,
alongside swimmers like Eric Namesnik, Gustavo Borges and Tom Dolan. At the European
LC Championships 1993 in Sheffield he won the bronze medal in the
400 m individual medley.
Back to
Brabant
Two years after he left Wouda moved back to the Netherlands, where
trainer-coach Jacco Verhaeren brought him back to the
top. Wouda got his second Olympic selection when he qualified for
the 1996 Summer Olympics. There he
reached a 4th place in the 200 m individual medley and a 5th
place in the 400 m individual medley, with the 4×200 m
freestyle he ended 7th alongside Mark van der Zijden, Martin
van der Spoel and Pieter van den Hoogenband. At
the European
LC Championships 1997 he became European champion in the
200 m and 400 m individual medley and won a silver medal
in the 4×200 m freestyle together with Pieter van den
Hoogenband, Mark van der Zijden and Martijn Zuijdweg.
Becoming
World Champion
At the 1998 World Aquatics
Championships in Perth, Western Australia, Australia Wouda became
world champion in the 200 m individual medley and won two
silver medals in the 400 m individual medley and the
4×200 m freestyle alongside van den Hoogenband, van der Zijden
and Zuijdweg. In April 1999 at the 1999 FINA Short Course World Championships
in Hong Kong, China Wouda won four medals.
He became world champion in the 4×200 m freestyle alongside Pieter van den Hoogenband, Johan Kenkhuis
and Martijn
Zuijdweg. He won silver medals in the 400 m individual
medley and the 4×100 m freestyle together with Mark Veens, Johan
Kenkhuis and Pieter van den Hoogenband, in the 200 m
individual medley he won a bronze medal. In the summer of 1999
Wouda took part in the European
LC Championships 1999 in Istanbul, Turkey. He successfully defended his title in
the 200 m individual medley and won the relay titles in the
4×100 m freestyle, with Kenkhuis, Veens and van den
Hoogenband, and the 4×100 m medley with Klaas-Erik
Zwering, Stefan Aartsen and van den Hoogenband.
He also won the bronze medal in the 400 m individual
medley.
Sydney
Olympics
On the road to the Sydney Olympics Wouda took part in the European
LC Championships 2000 in Helsinki, Finland where he won a bronze medal in the
4×200 m freestyle together with Martijn Zuijdweg, Mark van der
Zijden and Pieter van den Hoogenband. Wouda won a bronze medal in
the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 2000
Summer Olympics in Sydney,
Australia alongside Martijn
Zuijdweg, Johan Kenkhuis and Pieter van den Hoogenband.
Individually he ended 5th in the 200 m individual medley and
13th in the 100 m breaststroke. With the 4×100 m medley
team he ended 4th just missing out for a medal alongside Klaas-Erik
Zwering, Joris
Keizer and Pieter van den Hoogenband. In the aftermath of the
Sydney Olympics Wouda resigned from swimming. Six months later a
journalist from Dutch daily NRC Handelsblad, Mark Hoogstad, wrote a
book describing the resurrection of Dutch swimming at the hand of
Wouda's career.
Coaching
career
Wouda was the head coach of Dutch junior swimming for two years,
before being named assistant-coach of Verhaeren in Eindhoven, in October 2006. He guided Maarten van der Weijden to his
world title in the 25 km and the Olympic title in the
10 km. He is also the coach of Hinkelien Schreuder who was part of
the Dutch golden 4×100 m freestyle team and reached an
individual 7th place in the 50 m freestyle.
Swimmers currently
coached[1]
See also
External
links
References
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World Short Course Champions in Men's 4×200 m
Freestyle Relay |
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1993: Sweden (Wallin, Werner, Frölander, Holmertz) • 1995: Australia (Klim, Dunn, Allen, Kowalski) • 1997: Australia (Klim, Hackett, Kirby, Dunn) •
1999: Netherlands (Van den Hoogenband, Kenkhuis, Zuijdweg,
Wouda) • 2000:
United
States (Davis, Walker, Tucker, Carvin) • 2002: Australia (Pearson, Hass, Dunne, Hackett) •
2004: United States (Lochte, Carvin, Ketchum,
Mortimer) • 2006: Italy (Rosolino, Pelliciari,
Cassio, Magnini) • 2008: Australia (Palmer, Brits, Sprenger,
Monk) •
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