Carla Geurts

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Medal record
Competitor for Flag of the Netherlands Netherlands
Women’s Swimming
World Championsips (SC)
Silver 1995 Rio de Janeiro 400m Freestyle
Silver 1995 Rio de Janeiro 800m Freestyle
European Championships (LC)
Silver 1993 Slapy 5km Open Water
Silver 1995 Vienna 400m Freestyle
Silver 1995 Vienna 4x200m Freestyle
Silver 1997 Seville 800m Freestyle

Carla Louise Maria Geurts (born April 20, 1971 in Geldrop, Noord-Brabant) is a former freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia for the Netherlands. Geurts won three silver medals during her career at the European Swimming Championships. She retired in 2001, after the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka.

Since September 2006, Geurts had been a professor of Kinesiology and Physiology at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Geurts lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, since marrying swimming coach Andrew Cole in 2003.

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