Diana van der Plaats
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Full name | Adriana van der Plaats | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Diana | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Utrecht | 12 August 1971||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 66 kg (146 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Strokes | Freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | Zwemvereniging De Dolfijn | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Adriana "Diana" van der Plaats (born 12 August 1971) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed in two consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. There she won the silver medal with the Dutch 4×100 m freestyle relay team, behind East Germany, after swimming in the qualifying heats. In the final she was replaced by Conny van Bentum. Three years later Van der Plaats captured the title in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1991 European Aquatics Championships in Athens, Greece, and won the bronze in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.
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Categories:
- 1971 births
- Living people
- Dutch female freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Dutch sportswomen
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Dutch swimming biography stubs