Liesette Bruinsma
Liesette Bruinsma (born 9 September 2000) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer.[1] She competes in S11 classification events for athletes with visual impairments. She is the 2016 double Paralympic champion within her classification. She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 400 metre freestyle S11, and Women's 100 metre freestyle S11, winning two silver medals.[2]
Swimming career
Bruinsma first competed for the Netherlands at Glasgow in 2014.[3] Her first major international competition was the 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships in Funchal, where she competed in six events, and took a medal in five of them. Three of her Funchal medal's were gold: 400 m freestyle (S11), 100 m breaststroke (SB11) and the 200 m find. medley (SM11).
In the same year, Bruinsma made her Paralympic Games debut, winning five medals including two golds in the 200 metres individual medley and the 400 metres freestyle.[4]
The Netherlands did not send a team to the 2017 World Para Swimming Championships in Mexico city, but Bruinsma dominated at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships, winning four gold medals and breaking two world records, taking her tally of European Championships titles to seven.
During the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Bruinsma raised a protest after the women's 50 free final, claiming to have been hindered by the Chinese Li Guizhi.[5][6] The Paralympics organizing committee accepted the protest and decided to cancel the competition and hold a re-swim. This decision led to anger and protest in Chinese social media. The competition was repeated on 29 August 2021, with the same two Chinese swimmers winning the gold and silver again and Bruinsma finishing fourth.[7][8]
References
- ^ "Liesette Bruinsma". Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 22 September 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Swimming BRUINSMA Liesette". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "Bruinsma, Liesette". IPC. Archived from the original on 14 September 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
- ^ "Liesette Bruinsma - Swimming | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "Paralympische zwemfinale 50 meter vrij moet over na protest Bruinsma". NOS (in Dutch). 27 August 2021. Retrieved 20 May 2025.
- ^ "S11 Women's 50 Free Paralympic Final Protested in Tokyo, Re-Swim Required". SwimSwam. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ "帕運｜中國選手游泳撞到人奪銀牌 組委會收到抗議判決賽重比". Apple Daily Taiwan. 28 August 2021. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
- ^ "Swimming - Women's 50m Freestyle - S11 Schedule". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
External links
- Liesette Bruinsma at SwimRankings.net
- Liesette Bruinsma at Paralympic.org
- Liesette Bruinsma at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)