Swimming Career Highlights
Inge de Bruijn, Holland Born : 1973 in Barendrecht. After an unexceptional early career, de Bruijn matured into a world class swimmer. The development of speed and strength for the explosive 50 and 100 metres events led to 3 golds in the Sydney Olympics. She repeated her 50 metres Freestyle success at Athens. Current world record holder for the 50 metres Freestyle and 100 metres Butterfly.

 

Titles (Long Course)

1999:
 European: 50 metres Freestyle; 100 metres Butterfly;
European Swimmer of the Year
2000:
 Olympics: 50 metres Freestyle; 100 metres Freestyle; 100 metres Butterfly;
Worl;d Swimmer of the Year
European Swimmer of the Year
2001:
World: 50 metres Freestyle; 100 metres Freestyle; 50 metres Butterfly
World Swimmer of the Year
European Swimmer of the Year
2002:
2003:
World: 50 metres Freestyle; 50 metres Butterfly
2004:
Olympics: 50 metres Freestyle

World Records

1999:
50 metres Butterfly: 26.53
2000:
50 metres Freestyle: 24.48; 24.39; 24.13
100 metres Freestyle: 53.80; 53.77
50 metres Butterfly: 26.10; 25.64
100 metres Butterfly: 56.69; 56.64; 56.61
World Swimmer of the Year
2001:
World Swimmer of the Year

Short Course Championships

1998:
European: 50 metres Freestyle; 50 metres Butterfly
1999:
World: 50 metres Freestyle
2000:
2001:
European: 50 metres Freestyle; 100 metres Freestyle