Chantal Groot

Chantal Groot (* October 19, 1982 in Amsterdam) is a Dutch swimmer.

Career

Groot's parade route, the 50 meter butterfly. She was in total between 2000 and 2008 at three Summer Olympics there. Sydney 2000 they participated only in season decisions with the Dutch squadron. Together with the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay, she won the silver medal. She swam in the run for the Topschwimmerin Inge de Bruijn, who spared himself for the final. With the 4 × 200 meter freestyle and 4 × 100 meter medley relay they reached the eleventh or 14th place.

Four years later at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, she won the 4 × 100 meter freestyle relay bronze medal. Unlike in Sydney she swam together with Inge Dekker, Marleen Veldhuis and Inge de Bruijn in the final. In addition, it was about 100 meters butterfly and 21 with the Dutch 4 × 100 meter medley relay Sixth.

Your previously presented the greatest success of winning the gold medal in the 50 meter butterfly at the European Swimming Championships 2008 in their own country, dar. in Eindhoven, where she also qualified in sixth in the 100 meters butterfly for the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing, where she finally over this distance 30th overall place occupied.

In April 2008, at the Short Course World Championships in Manchester, she was over the 100 meters butterfly sixth.

Records

She put together with the Dutch freestyle relay teams numerous European records. The Short Course European Championships 2003 in Dublin and 2005 in Trieste they improved each of the 4 × 50 m freestyle European record.

In the title win over 4 × 100 meter freestyle at the short course world championships in Shanghai in 2006 they jointly proposed Marleen Veldhuis, Inge Dekker and Hinke Schreuder in the new world record time of 03:33,32 to min.