Klaas-Erik Zwering (born 19 May 1981) is a former Dutch swimmer and an Olympic medalist. He is currently studying MBO entrepreneurship as he trained in Eindhoven with the PSV Eindhoven swim club. His personal coach was Jacco Verhaeren, who is also coach for Dutch swimming phenom Pieter van den Hoogenband.

Zwering originally specialized in the 200 meter backstroke, coming in seventh place in his first senior competition at the European Championships in Istanbul. In the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, he came in tenth place in the same event. Recently, however, he has been focusing exclusively on freestyle swimming.

Klaas-Erik Zwering

In 2001 at the FINA World Championships in Fukuoka, Japan, Klaas-Erik was a member of the silver medal winning 4×100 meter freestyle relay team. Later, along with teammates Pieter van den Hoogenband, Johan Kenkhuis and Mitja Zastrow, Zwering won his first Olympic silver medal in the 4×100 meter freestyle relay in the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens, Greece. Afterwards he retired.

Klaas-Erik Zwering

See also

Dutch records in swimming

External links

Zwemkroniek online profile

References

1981 births

Living people

Dutch male backstroke swimmers

Dutch male freestyle swimmers

Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands

Swimmers at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Swimmers at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands

Sportspeople from Eindhoven

World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming

European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming

Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics

Olympic silver medalists in swimming

Goodwill Games medalists in swimming

Competitors at the 2001 Goodwill Games

21st-century Dutch people

Klaas-Erik Zwering