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| Born | 6 March 1975 (1975-03-06) (age 50) Hoorn, the Netherlands | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||
| Club | De Water Kip, Barneveld | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Minouche Smit (born 6 March 1975) is a formerfreestyle andmedleyswimmer from theNetherlands. At the1996 Summer Olympics inAtlanta, Georgia, she finished in sixth position (8:08.48) with the 4×200 m freestyle relay, alongsideCarla Geurts,Patricia Stokkers, andKirsten Vlieghuis. A year earlier the four of them won the silver medal in the same event at theEuropean LC Championships inVienna, Austria. In Atlanta Smit was also on the women's relay team, that ended up in fourth place (3:42.40) in the 4×100 m freestyle, together withMarianne Muis,Wilma van Hofwegen, andKarin Brienesse. In her only individual start, in the 200 m individual medley, she finished in seventh position, clocking 2:16.73.[1]
Smit was married to the Dutch swimming starPieter van den Hoogenband. They have two children. In September 2012 the couple announced their separation.[2]
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