Thijs van Hofweegen (born 30 November 1996) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer with cerebral palsy.[1] He is a silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a gold medalist in several events at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships held in Dublin, Ireland. He also won the bronze medal in the men's 50 metre freestyle S6 event at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships held in Madeira.
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| Born | 30 November 1996 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Classifications | S6 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Career
editVan Hofweegen represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he won the silver medal in the men's 400 metre freestyle S6 event.[2][3] He also competed in the men's 50 metre freestyle S6 and men's 100 metre freestyle S6 where he respectively finished in 8th and 5th place in the final.
At the 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships held in Funchal, Madeira, he won the silver medal in the men's 100m freestyle S6 event.[4] He also won the bronze medals in the men's 400m freestyle S6 event and in the 100m backstroke S6 event.
At the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships held in Dublin, Ireland, he won three gold medals: in the men's 50 metres freestyle S6 event, in the men's 100 metres freestyle S6 event, in the men's 400 metres freestyle S6 event. He also won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres medley relay event.
In 2021, Van Hofweegen represented the Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[5] He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke S6 and men's 100 metre freestyle S6 events and in both events he advanced to compete in the final.[5] He also finished in 5th place in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay 34pts event.[5]
References
edit- ^ "van HOFWEEGEN, Thijs". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 4 September 2021.
Date of Birth: 30 Nov 1996 / Sport Class: S6 / Place of residence : MAARN / Residence Country: Netherlands
- ^ "Thijs van Hofweegen". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "Driemaal zilver Nederlanders op Paralympische Spelen". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 14 September 2016. Archived from the original on 15 September 2016. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ "Dubbel goud voor Nederlandse zwemmers op EK". TeamNL (in Dutch). 3 May 2016. Archived from the original on 17 December 2019. Retrieved 17 December 2019.
- ^ a b c "Swimming Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
External links
edit- Thijs van Hofweegen at the International Paralympic Committee
- Thijs van Hofweegen at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- Thijs van Hofweegen on Instagram
