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Kira Toussaint, Tes Schouten, Maaike de Waard and Marrit Steenbergen have won a bronze medal in the last number for the Netherlands at the European Swimming Championships in Rome, the 4×100 meter medley. For Steenbergen it was already the seventh medal this tournament.
The four swam to a time of 3.57.36. Sweden, with swimming star Sarah Sjöström, took the gold in a time of 3.55.25. Silver was for France (3.56.36).
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After Toussaint (back), Schouten (school) and De Waard (butterfly) had swam, there was still some work to be done: the Netherlands was fourth and the gap with Italy was large.
Steenbergen managed to get a good final sprint in the last 100 meters and so the Orange swam to the bronze. That medal brings the harvest for the Netherlands at the European Championship in Rome to no less than eleven medals: 4 x gold, 1 x silver and 6 x bronze.
Swimming Queen Steenbergen
Swimming queen Steenbergen had a very large share in this with seven medals. Previously, the 22-year-old swam to individual gold in the 100 and 200-meter freestyle and as part of the Orange relay team took the European title in the 4×200-meter freestyle and the mixed 4×100-meter medley. There was also bronze in the 4x100m freestyle.
The young swimmer is the fourth woman ever to swim seven medals in a European championship. She joins a nice list of swimmers: Sjostrom (7 medals in 2014), the German Franziska van Almsick (7 medals in 1995) and the French Laure Manaudou (7 medals in 2006).
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Thom de Boer was sixth in the final of the 50-meter freestyle on the final day of the European Championship. In Rome, the 30-year-old Dutchman swam to a time of 21.90.
“My slowest time of these two days, too bad”, De Boer reacted disappointed afterwards. “I just have a very high level, I often show that. But I do want to win a medal one day.”
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Britain’s Benjamin Proud took the gold, he tapped in 21.58 seconds, closely followed by Italian Leonardo Deplano (21.60) and Kristian Gzuileev from Greece (21.70).
