Robert Lijesen
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| Full name | Robert Lijesen | ||||||||||||||||||
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 Netherlands
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February 5, 1985 Dordrecht |
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| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 78 kg (172 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | freestyle | ||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Nationaal Zweminstituut Eindhoven | ||||||||||||||||||
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Robert Lijesen (born February 5, 1985 in Dordrecht) is a Dutch Swimmer, who is specialized in the 50 and 100 m freestyle. He is currently trained by former world champion Marcel Wouda at the same club as multiple olympic champion Pieter van den Hoogenband. He holds the European record in the 4 × 100 m freestyle Short Course together with Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele in 3:09.18 swum during the World SC Championships 2008 in Manchester they finished second in this event behind the United States who swum a world record in the same race.
Lijesen made his international senior debut at the 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships in Shanghai with the 23rd place in the 100 m freestyle.
He was part of the team that broke the European record in the 4 × 100 m freestyle (SC) at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships alongside Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele winning a silver medal doing so. Individually he reached 17th place in the 50 m freestyle. With the 4 × 100 m medley relay he reached an 8th place together with Bastiaan Tamminga, van Aggele and Joeri Verlinden swimming a new national record.
A few weeks before at the 2008 European Aquatics Championships in Eindhoven he won the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle, where he split faster than Pieter van den Hoogenband who was later revealed suffered from the flu. Individually he ended 12th in the 100 m freestyle, in the 50 m freestyle he reached the final where he finished 6th.
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