Minouche Smit

Medal record
Women’s swimming
Competitor for the  Netherlands
European Championships (LC)
Silver 1995 Vienna 4×200 m freestyle

Minouche Smit (born 6 March 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 4×200 m 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 4×100 m freestyle, together with Marianne Muis, Wilma van Hofwegen, and Karin Brienesse. In her only individual start, in the 200 m individual medley, Smit finished in seventh position, clocking 2:16.73.

Smit married Dutch swimming star Pieter van den Hoogenband in 2005.

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