Madelon Baans

Madelon Baans

Personal information
Born	(1977-10-08) October 8, 1977 Rotterdam
Medal record Competitor for  Netherlands Women's swimming European Championships (LC) 2004 Madrid 4×100 m medley

Madelon Baans (born October 8, 1977 in Rotterdam) is a retired female breaststroke swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed for her native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1996 in Atlanta, Georgia. She made her last international appearance at the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2005 in Trieste, Italy.

Baans is 49 time Dutch national champion (24 on long course), current Dutch national record holder at the 100 m breaststroke in either the short course (25 m) and long course (50 m). During the 2004 European Championships in Madrid, she won the bronze medal as being part of the 4×100 m medley, in the same year she reached the final at the 2004 Summer Olympics on the same discipline. She announced her retirement in November 2006.

See also

• List of Dutch records in swimming

References

• Dutch Olympic Committee
• Profile in Zwemkroniek (in Dutch)

1996 Dutch Olympic Swimming Team Men's competition Stefan Aartsen Pie Geelen Pieter van den Hoogenband Benno Kuipers Martin van der Spoel Mark Veens Marcel Wouda Mark van der Zijden Women's competition Madelon Baans Karin Brienesse Carla Geurts Wilma van Hofwegen Marianne Muis Angela Postma Minouche Smit Brenda Starink Patricia Stokkers Kirsten Vlieghuis

2000 Dutch Olympic Swimming Team Men's competition Stefan Aartsen Ewout Holst Pieter van den Hoogenband Joris Keizer Johan Kenkhuis Benno Kuipers Dennis Rijnbeek Mark Veens Marcel Wouda Mark van der Zijden Martijn Zuijdweg Klaas-Erik Zwering Women's competition Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Carla Geurts Chantal Groot Thamar Henneken Wilma van Hofwegen Manon van Rooijen Brenda Starink Haike van Stralen Kirsten Vlieghuis

2004 Dutch Olympic Swimming Team Men's competition Pieter van den Hoogenband Joris Keizer Johan Kenkhuis Thijs van Valkengoed Mark Veens Mitja Zastrow Klaas-Erik Zwering Women's competition Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Inge Dekker Chantal Groot Annabel Kosten Celina Lemmen Stefanie Luiken Haike van Stralen Marleen Veldhuis