Haike van Stralen

Haike van Stralen

Personal information
Full name	Haike Eva van Stralen
National team	Netherlands
Born	22 April 1983 Leusden, Netherlands
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	59 kg (130 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	De Kempvis Spijkenisse
Coach	Dick Bergsma

Haike Eva van Stralen (born April 22, 1983) is a Dutch former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events.^[1] She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and double Dutch short-course champion in the 200 and 400 m freestyle.^[2] Van Stralen also played for De Kempvis Swimming Club in Spijkenisse, under her personal coach Dick Bergsma.

Van Stralen made her first Dutch team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She placed eleventh, along with Carla Geurts, Chantal Groot, and Manon van Rooijen, in the 4×200 m freestyle relay with a time of 8:08.53.^[3]

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Van Stralen competed again in the women's 4×200 m freestyle relay as a member of the Dutch team.^[4] She claimed the 200 m freestyle from the Dutch National Championships in Amsterdam, posting her relay entry time of 2:02.21.^[5] Teaming with Groot, Marleen Veldhuis, and Celina Lemmen in heat two, van Stralen swam a second leg, and lowered her personal best to 2:01.80. Van Stralen and the entire Dutch team missed the top 8 final by almost two seconds, finishing only in fifth place and ninth overall with a final time of 8:08.96.^[6][7]

References

1. "Haike van Stralen". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
2. Rusticus, Oene (23 December 2002). "Four National Records Set at Dutch Short Course Nationals". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
3. "Sydney 2000: Swimming – Women's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 1" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 358. Retrieved 3 March 2013.
4. "Swimming – Women's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Startlist (Heat 2)" (PDF). Athens 2004. Omega Timing. Retrieved 27 April 2013.
5. Rusticus, Oene (20 April 2004). "Dutch Trials End; Fast Women's 4x100 Free Relay Squad Ready to Do Battle in Athens". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 12 May 2013.
6. "Women's 4×200m Freestyle Relay Heat 2". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 18 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
7. Thomas, Stephen (18 August 2004). "Women’s 800 Freestyle Relay, Day 5 Prelims: Team USA Posts the Fastest Time, Brits and Aussies Next". Swimming World Magazine. Retrieved 26 April 2013.