Diana van der Plaats

Personal information

Full name

Adriana van der Plaats

Nickname(s)

"Diana"

Nationality

Netherlands

Born

August 12, 1971
Utrecht

Height

1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)

Weight

66 kg (146 lb)

Sport

Swimming

Strokes

Freestyle

Club

Zwemvereniging De Dolfijn

Medal record

Olympic Games
	1988 Seoul	4×100 m freestyle
European Championships (LC)
	1991 Athens	4×100 m freestyle
	1987 Strasbourg	4×100 m freestyle
	1989 Bonn	4×100 m freestyle
	1989 Bonn	4×200 m freestyle
	1991 Athens	4×200 m freestyle

Adriana "Diana" van der Plaats (born August 12, 1971 in Utrecht) is a former freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands, who competed in two consequentive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1988. There she won the silver medal with the Dutch 4×100 m freestyle relay team, behind East Germany, after swimming in the qualifying heats. In the final she was replaced by Conny van Bentum. Three years later Van der Plaats captured the title in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1991 European Aquatics Championships in Athens, Greece, and won the bronze in the 4×200 m freestyle relay.

References

Dutch Olympic Committee

European champions in women's 4×100 m freestyle relay

1927: Great Britain (Laverty, Davies, King, Cooper)
1931: Netherlands (Baumeister, Vierdag, den Ouden, Braun)
1934: Netherlands (Selbach, Timmermans, Mastenbroek, den Ouden)
1938: Denmark (Riise, Kraft, Ove-Petersen, Hveger)
1947: Denmark (Svendsen, Harup, Andersen, Nathansen)
1950: Netherlands (Massaar, Termeulen, Linssen-Vaessen, Heijting-Schuhmacher)
1954: Hungary (Gyenge, Sebő, Temes, Szőke)
1958: Netherlands (Schimmel, Lagerberg, Kraan, Gastelaars)
1962: Netherlands (Gastelaars, Lasterie, Terpstra, Tigelaar)
1966: Soviet Union (Sipchenko, Rudenko, Ustinova, Sosnova)
1970: East Germany (Wetzko, Komar, Sehmisch, Schulze)
1974: East Germany (Ender, Franke, Eife, Hübner)
1977: East Germany (Treiber, Wächtler, Priemer, Krause)
1981: East Germany (Meineke, Metschuck, Diers, Link)
1983: East Germany (Otto, Link, Sirch, Meineke)
1985: East Germany (Strauss, König, Stellmach, Friedrich)
1987: East Germany (Stellmach, Friedrich, Otto, Meissner)
1989: East Germany (Meissner, Stellmach, Hunger, Friedrich)
1991: Netherlands (van der Plaats, de Bruijn, Mastenbroek, Brienesse)
1993: Germany (van Almsick, Kielgass, Stellmach, Hunger)
1995: Germany (van Almsick, Osygus, Kielgass, Hunger)
1997: Germany (Meissner, Osygus, Buschschulte, Völker)
1999: Germany (Meissner, Buschschulte, van Almsick, Völker)
2000: Sweden (Jöhncke, Sjöberg, Kammerling, Alshammar)
2002: Germany (Meissner, Dallmann, Völker, van Almsick)
2004: France (Figuès, Couderc, Mongel, Metella)
2006: Germany (Dallmann, Götz, Steffen, Liebs)
2008: Netherlands (Dekker, Kromowidjojo, Heemskerk, Veldhuis)
2010: Germany (Samulski, Lippok, Vitting, Schreiber)
2012: Germany (Steffen, Lippok, Vitting, Schreiber)
2014: Sweden (Coleman, Kuras, Hansson, Sjöström)
2016: Netherlands (van der Meer, Heemskerk, Steenbergen, Kromowidjojo)

1988 Dutch Olympic swimming team

Men's competition	Ron Dekker Frank Drost Patrick Dybiona Hans Kroes

Women's competition	Conny van Bentum Karin Brienesse Linda Moes Marianne Muis Mildred Muis Diana van der Plaats Jolanda de Rover

1992 Dutch Olympic swimming team

Men's competition	Marcel Wouda

Women's competition	Karin Brienesse Inge de Bruijn Kira Bulten Ellen Elzerman Martine Janssen Marianne Muis Mildred Muis Diana van der Plaats

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