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| Full name | Olaf Wildeboer Faber | |||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Spain (pre-2006) Netherlands (2006- ) |
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| Born | March 4, 1983 Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain |
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||
| Stroke(s) | Freesylte | |||||||||||||||
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Olaf Wildeboer Faber (born March 4, 1983 in Sabadell, Catalonia, Spain) is a freestyle swimmer. He is of Dutch origin. His parents, both born and raised in Netherlands, moved to Spain in 1978, and settled in Sabadell.
Both Olaf and his younger brother Aschwin, a backstroke swimmer, represented Spain at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where Olaf was eliminated in the semi finals of the Men's 200m Freestyle.
After the 2005 World Aquatics Championships in Montreal, Canada Olaf decided to leave Spain, and started to train in the Netherlands. In the spring of 2006 he decided to stay in Eindhoven, and announced that he would compete for the Netherlands in the future. After obtaining consent from the Spanish authorities, he represented Holland for the first time at the 2006 European Championships in Budapest, Hungary.
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