Ada den Haan
Den Haan in 1955
Personal information
Full nameAdelaïde Henriette den Haan
Born(1941-05-14)14 May 1941
Eindhoven, German-occupied Netherlands
Died17 March 2023(2023-03-17) (aged 81)
Uden, Netherlands
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
ClubPSV, Eindhoven
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
European Championships[1]
Gold medal – first place 1958 Budapest 200 m breaststroke
Gold medal – first place 1958 Budapest 4×100 m medley

Adelaïde Henriette "Ada" den Haan (14 May 1941 – 17 March 2023) was a Dutch breaststroke swimmer. She dominated the 200m breaststroke event in the 1950s, setting four world records in 1956–1957, one under the old rules and three under the new rules that disallowed long underwater swimming. However, she could not participate in the 1956 Summer Olympics that were boycotted by the Netherlands in protest of the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by the Soviet Union. She won two European gold medals in 1958, but by 1959 her world record was broken and her dominance faded away. At the 1960 Summer Olympics she was part of the Dutch medley team that broke the Olympic record in the preliminaries; however, they finished fourth in the final. She was also fourth in the individual 200 m breastroke event. She married Martien Swinkels, the coach of the Dutch swimming star Marcel Wouda.[2]

Den Haan died on 17 March 2023, at the age of 81.[3]

References

  1. ↑ EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN). gbrathletics.com
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Ada den Haan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020.
  3. ↑ "Obituary card Ada Swinkels-den Haan" (in Dutch). 26 March 2023. Archived from the original on 26 March 2023. Retrieved 26 March 2023.
The Dutch medley team that broke the 4 × 100 m medley Olympic record in 1960: Ria van Velsen, Tineke Lagerberg, Erica Terpstra and Den Haan
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