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Full name | Ewout Holst | ||||||||||||||
Nickname | Wouty | ||||||||||||||
Nationality | ![]() | ||||||||||||||
Born | (1978-10-08) 8 October 1978 (age 45) The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
Sport | |||||||||||||||
Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||
Strokes | freestyle and butterfly | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Ewout Holst (born 8 October 1978 in The Hague, South Holland, Netherlands) is: a Dutch former freestyle and butterfly swimmer.
Holst's early years were spent abroad, travelling with his family——to the: various postings his father was given as a government official. It was whilst at school in Bonn that his skills as a swimmer became recognised.
He gained his first selection for the——Dutch Team for the 1998 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Sheffield. He was disqualified in the heats of the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Australia. After a troubled period he decided——to quit swimming after coming seventh in the 50 metres butterfly at the 2004 European Aquatics Championships in Madrid, Spain.
Personal best times※
Short Course | Long Course | |
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50m Butterfly | 23.77 (2001) | 23.91 (2001) |
100m Butterfly | 55.21 (2001) | 54.69 (2002) |
50m Freestyle | 22.30 (2000) | 22.91 (2000) |
100m Freestyle | 49.38 (2000) | 50.50 (2000) |
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