Minouche Smit

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Minouche Smit (born March 6, 1975 in Hoorn, Noord-Holland) is a former freestyle and medley swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia.

There she finished in sixth position (8:08.48) with the 4x200m Freestyle Relay, alongside Carla Geurts, Patricia Stokkers, and Kirsten Vlieghuis. A year earlier the four of them won the silver medal in the same event at the European LC Championships in Vienna, Austria. In Atlanta she was also on the Women's Relay Team, that ended up in fourth place (3:42.40) in the 4x100m Freestyle, together with Marianne Muis, Wilma van Hofwegen, and Karin Brienesse. In her only individual start, in the 200m Individual Medley, Smit finished in seventh position, clocking 2:16.73.

Smit married Dutch swimming star Pieter van den Hoogenband in 2005. The couple are expecting their first child in June 2007.