The Royal Dutch Swimming Federation (KNZB) has revealed its official roster for next month’s Olympic Games in Tokyo, Japan.
Based on performances at the 2019 FINA World Championships, the 2019 Swim Cup – Amsterdam, the Rotterdam Qualification Meet last December, as well as the Eindhoven Qualification Meet this past April, a roster of 15 swimmers will represent the Netherlands in the pool on the world’s biggest stage.
Ferry Weertman has qualified s the sole men’s open water swimmer while Sharon van Rouwendaal has qualified in both the pool and open water.
Also, Kira Toussaint qualified in the women’s 200m back but will not race the event in Tokyo, instead focusing on her stronger 100m back event at relays.
The men’s roster is entirely made up of Olympic rookies, with Arno Kamminga and Thom de Boer have especially been on-fire as of late. Kamminga ranks as the #2 100m breaststroke in the world after nabbing a lifetime best of 57.90 to become just the only man not named Adam Peaty to have dipped under the 58-second threshold.
Kaminga also ranks #2 in the world in the 200m breast in 2:06.85, while de Boer has produced a string of 21-point 50m freestyles as of late. He is positioned 5th with a new Dutch record of 21.62.
As for the women, Kromo, Heemskerk, van Rouwendall, Steenbergen and Toussaint were all part of the team in Rio.
As a nation, the Netherlands finished 5th in the overall swimming medal table, but their only 2 pieces of hardware came from the open water swimming arena. Weertman snagged the 10k Olympic title, while van Rouwendaal did the same in the women’s 10k race.
Dutch Olympic Pool Swimming Roster
Women
- Ranomi Kromowidjojo (50 and 100 free)
- Femke Heemskerk (50 and 100 free)
- Kira Toussaint (100 back)
- Maaike de Waard (100 back)
- Tes Schouten (100 breastsroke)
- Sharon van Rouwendaal (200 back)
Men
- Arno Kamminga (100 and 200 breaststroke)
- Jesse Puts (50 free)
- Arjan Knipping (400 IM)
- Thom de Boer (50 free)
- Nyls Korstanje (100 butterfly)
Relays
- Kim Busch (4x100m free)
- Marrit Steenbergen (4x100m free)
- Stan Pijnenburg (4x100m free)
- Caspar Corbeau (reserve 100 breaststroke in the mixed relay)
So Van Roon is officially out, surely they take her, imagine thinking your going and then being taken off the list
Big congrats to Casper on being selected for the Dutch Olympic team can’t wait to see how he does in Tokyo.
A very impressive 59.3 and a semi final
Caspar Corbeau announced on his instagram that he’s been added to compete individually
Well at the KNZB site it says in Dutch under the “relay swimmers”: The order of swimmers swimming the relays will be anounced on the day of the relay. The swimmers qualified as relay swimmers can maybe swim in individual events, with the rule that there can only be 2 swimmers per event. Which basically means, the KNZB or the NOC-NSF can say to Stan Pijnenburg and Caspar Corbeau that they may swim an individual event if they have a A-cut (Corbeau, since Kamminga has an A-cut for the breaststrokes) or B-cut (Pijnenburg, since there isn’t a Dutch man qualified for the 100 free, he also said this to the press after his 100 free at Europeans, that they might… Read more »
Caspar has A cuts
… it’s more than a slight chance.