Edith van Dijk
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| Women's Open Water | ||
Representing the  Netherlands
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| World Championships | ||
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2003 Barcelona | 25 km |
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2005 Montreal | 25 km |
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2005 Montreal | 10 km |
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1998 Perth | 5 km |
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2001 Fukuoka | 25 km |
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1998 Perth | 25 km |
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2001 Fukuoka | 10 km |
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2003 Barcelona | 10 km |
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2005 Montreal | 5 km |
| FINA World Open Water Swimming Championships | ||
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2000 Honolulu | 10 km |
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2000 Honolulu | 25 km |
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2002 Sharm el-Sheikh | 25 km |
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2002 Sharm el-Sheikh | 5 km |
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2004 Dubai | 25 km |
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2008 Seville | 25 km |
| European Championships | ||
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2002 Potsdam | 10 km |
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2002 Potsdam | 25 km |
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1995 Vienna | 25 km |
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2000 Helsinki | 25 km |
Edith van Dijk (born April 6, 1973 in Haastrecht) is a Dutch swimmer and 6-fold world champion. She is Holland's most successful open water swimmer and long distance swimmer, whose career started in 1990 taking part in the Dutch IJsselmeermarathon. She starts out at Gouda's swimming club DONK, the swimming portion of the soccer team of the same name. At DONK teammates gave her the nickname Piaf, due to her having the same first name as Edith Piaf. She is a Knight in the Order of Orange Nassau and holds a Doctorate in Economy from Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
In the years following the 1990 IJsselmeermarathon she finds her place between the world's top. Her definitive breakthrough is during the European championships of 1995 in Vienna, where she wins the silver medal on the longest distance in open water swimming, that of 25 kilometer. The next high is reached in less than three years in Perth, where she wins two medals at the world championships: silver on the 5 kilometer and bronze on the 25 kilometer.
Another two years later, when first separate open water world championships were held off the coast of Hawaii, she hit on the 10 and 25 kilometers. From then on, Van Dijk – living in Wognum and competing for the club SG Hoorn/Zeemacht, always stood on the podium at every major international tournament. In addition to this she also decorated herself with high classifications in the World Cup circuit, including ultra-long races, of more than seventy kilometers in Argentina and Brazil. In 2001, 2002, and 2003 she is nominated for the honor title of Dutch Female Sporter of the Year.
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