Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
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Born | 24 February 1925 Ginneken en Bavel, the Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 8 January 2014 (aged 88) Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, Australia | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | RDZ, Rotterdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Coach | Ma Braun | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (24 February 1925 – 8 January 2014)[1] was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London (1948), she won the silver medal four years later in Helsinki, Finland, in the same event. Individually, she was sixth in the 100 m freestyle at both games.[2] She also won two gold and two silver medals at the 1947 and 1950 European Championships.[3]
In 1950, while touring Australia with Geertje Wielema, Schuhmacher met Johan Heijting, a Dutch animal husbandry specialist who had recently immigrated to Australia. They married on 22 March 1952,[4] and one week after the 1952 Olympics, Heijting-Schuhmacher moved to her husband's breeding farm near Brisbane.[1][2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher's obituary Archived 2014-01-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
- ^ a b Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher Archived 2012-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. www.sports-reference.com
- ^ EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN). gbrathletics.com
- ^ Huwelijk Irma Schuhmacher. Dutch Nationaal Archief
- 1925 births
- 2014 deaths
- Dutch female freestyle swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Breda
- Olympic bronze medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Olympic silver medalists in swimming
- 20th-century Dutch sportswomen
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch swimming biography stubs