Erik de Bruin

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Medal record
Men’s Athletics
Competitor for the  Netherlands
World Championships
Silver	1991 Tokyo	Discus

Erik de Bruin (born May 25, 1963 in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, Zuid-Holland) is a retired discus thrower and shot putter from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1984 in Los Angeles, California. There he ended up in 8th place in the men's shot put competition.

The older brother of discus thrower Corrie de Bruin, he was Holland's leading discus thrower and shot putter in the 1980s and early 1990s. He won the silver medal at the 1990 European Championships. Later on he married Irish swimmer Michelle Smith, whom he guided to three golden medals at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, Georgia. An independent arbitration committee cleared him of an allegation of a doping offence. But in 1993 the IAAF banned him for four years.

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• (Dutch) Dutch Olympic Committee