Carla Geurts

Carla Geurts

Personal information
Full name	Carla Louise Maria Geurts
Nationality	Netherlands
Born	(1971-04-20) 20 April 1971 Geldrop, Netherlands
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle
Club	Utrechtsche Zwemclub (UZC)
College team	Brock University
Medal record Women’s swimming Representing  Italy World Championships (SC) 1995 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle 1995 Rio de Janeiro 800 m freestyle 1997 Gothenburg 800 m freestyle European Championships (LC) 1993 Sheffield 5 km open water 1995 Vienna 400 m freestyle 1995 Vienna 4×200 m freestyle 1997 Seville 800 m freestyle European Championships (SC) 1996 Rostock 800 m freestyle 1998 Sheffield 400 m freestyle 1996 Rostock 400 m freestyle 1998 Sheffield 800 m freestyle 1996 Rostock 200 m freestyle

Carla Geurts (born 20 April 1971, in Geldrop) is a former freestyle swimmer who competed at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta, Georgia, and the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia for the Netherlands. Geurts won three silver medals during her career at the European Swimming Championships. She retired in 2001, after the 2001 World Aquatics Championships in Fukuoka.

Since September 2006, Geurts had been a professor of Kinesiology and Physiology at Brock University, in St. Catharines, Ontario. Geurts lives in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, since marrying swimming coach Andrew Cole in 2003.

References

• Dutch Olympic Committee
• sports-reference

1996 Dutch Olympic swimming team
Men's competition	Stefan Aartsen Pie Geelen Pieter van den Hoogenband Benno Kuipers Martin van der Spoel Mark Veens Marcel Wouda Mark van der Zijden
Women's competition	Madelon Baans Karin Brienesse Carla Geurts Wilma van Hofwegen Marianne Muis Angela Postma Minouche Smit Brenda Starink Patricia Stokkers Kirsten Vlieghuis

2000 Dutch Olympic swimming team
Men's competition	Stefan Aartsen Ewout Holst Pieter van den Hoogenband Joris Keizer Johan Kenkhuis Benno Kuipers Dennis Rijnbeek Mark Veens Marcel Wouda Mark van der Zijden Martijn Zuijdweg Klaas-Erik Zwering
Women's competition	Madelon Baans Inge de Bruijn Carla Geurts Chantal Groot Thamar Henneken Wilma van Hofwegen Manon van Rooijen Brenda Starink Haike van Stralen Kirsten Vlieghuis