Robert Lijesen

Robert Lijesen

Personal information
Full name	Robert Lijesen
Nationality	Netherlands
Born	February 5, 1985 (1985-02-05) (age 27) Dordrecht
Height	1.91 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight	78 kilograms (170 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Stroke(s)	freestyle
Club	Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven
Medal record Men's Swimming Competitor for the  Netherlands World Championships (SC) Silver 2008 Manchester 4×100 m freestyle European Championships (LC) Bronze 2008 Eindhoven 4×100 m freestyle

Robert Lijesen (born February 5, 1985, Dordrecht) is a Dutch Swimmer,^[1] who is specialized in the 50 and 100 m freestyle. He is currently trained by former world champion Marcel Wouda at the same club as multiple olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband. He holds the European record in the 4×100 m freestyle Short Course together with Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele in 3:09.18^[2] swum during the World SC Championships 2008 in Manchester they finished second in this event behind the United States who swum a world record in the same race.

Contents 1 Swimming career 1.1 2008 2 See also 3 Personal bests 4 References

Swimming career

Lijesen made his international senior debut at the 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships in Shanghai with the 23rd place in the 100 m freestyle.

2008

He was part of the team that broke the European record in the 4×100 m freestyle (SC) at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships alongside Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele winning a silver medal doing so. Individually he reached 17th place in the 50 m freestyle. With the 4×100 m medley relay he reached a 8th place together with Bastiaan Tamminga, van Aggele and Joeri Verlinden swimming a new national record.

A few weeks before at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven he won the bronze medal in the 4×100 m freestyle, where he splitted faster than Pieter van den Hoogenband who was later revealed suffered from the flu. Individually he ended 12th in the 100 m freestyle, in the 50 m freestyle he reached the final where he finished 6th.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished 10th in the 4×100 m freestyle with Zastrow, van den Hoogenband and van Velthoven. In the 50 m freestyle, his only individual start, he reached a 32nd spot.

See also

• List of swimmers
• Dutch records in swimming
• European records in swimming

Personal bests

Short course[1][3] Event Time Date Location 50 m freestyle 21.72 2008-12-19 Amsterdam, Netherlands 100 m freestyle 47.42 2008-12-21 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Long course[1][3] Event Time Date Location 50 m freestyle 22.40 2008-12-05 Eindhoven, Netherlands 100 m freestyle 49.71 2008-03-21 Eindhoven, Netherlands

References

2008 Dutch Olympic Swimming Team Men's competition Robin van Aggele • Nick Driebergen • Pieter van den Hoogenband • Robert Lijesen • Thijs van Valkengoed • Bas van Velthoven • Maarten van der Weijden • Mitja Zastrow Women's competition Linda Bank • Inge Dekker • Edith van Dijk • Chantal Groot • Femke Heemskerk • Saskia de Jonge • Ranomi Kromowidjojo • Manon van Rooijen • Hinkelien Schreuder • Jolijn van Valkengoed • Marleen Veldhuis

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Name	Lijesen, Robert
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Date of birth	February 5, 1985
Place of birth	Dordrecht
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