Ranomi Kromowidjojo

Fecha de nacimiento: 20-ago-1990

Biografía

After winning medals at the European Junior Swimming Championships in 2005 and 2006 she made her international senior debut at the European LC Championships 2006 in Budapest, Hungary. She immediately won her first international senior medal in the 4x100 m freestyle relay, alongside Inge Dekker, Chantal Groot and Marleen Veldhuis, at the age of 15.

She then qualified for her first World Championships. At the World LC Championships 2007 in Melbourne, Australia she won a bronze medal in the 4x100 freestyle relay together with Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. Individually she finished 13th in the 100 freestyle. Ranomi swam the world record in the 4x100 m freestyle Short course, with Hinkelien Schreuder, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis, at the Dutch Open Swim Cup. In the week afterwards she competed in the European Short Course Swimming Championships 2007 in Debrecen, Hungary. There she swum another world record in the 4x50 m freestyle Short course together with Hinkelien Schreuder, Inge Dekker and Marleen Veldhuis

In 2008 her first big tournament was the European LC Championships 2008 in Eindhoven. In the 4x100 m freestyle, she won the gold medal and with the team: Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis. They broke the world record, the new standard 3:33.62. Individually she ended 9th in the 200 m freestyle. A few weeks later at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships in Manchester she won the world title in the 4x200 m freestyle relay and broke another world record again with Dekker, Heemskerk and Veldhuis.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she won the gold medal in the 4x100 m freestyle. Again alongside Inge Dekker, Femke Heemskerk and Marleen Veldhuis in a time of 3:33.76 just outside of their own world record.

Records Obtenidos

  • 4 x 50 m Freestyle World Record - Short Course
  • 4 x 100 m Freestyle World Record - Short course
  • 4 x 100 m Freestyle World Record - Long Course

 

Logros

  • 2008 - Beijing Olympics - Gold - 4 x 100 M Free Relay.