Thijs van Hofweegen
Personal information
Born (1996-11-30) 30 November 1996
Sport
SportSwimming
Medal record
Men's para swimming
Representing  Netherlands
Paralympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2016 Rio de Janeiro 400 m freestyle S6
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place2022 Madeira50 m freestyle S6
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2018 Dublin 50 m freestyle S6
Gold medal – first place 2018 Dublin 100 m freestyle S6
Gold medal – first place 2018 Dublin 400 m freestyle S6
Silver medal – second place 2016 Funchal 100 m freestyle S6
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Funchal 400 m freestyle S6
Bronze medal – third place 2016 Funchal 100 m backstroke S6
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Dublin 4 x 100 m medley relay

Thijs van Hofweegen (born 30 November 1996) is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer with cerebral palsy. He is a silver medalist at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and a gold medalist in several events at the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships held in Dublin, Ireland. He also won the bronze medal in the men's 50 metre freestyle S6 event at the 2022 World Para Swimming Championships held in Madeira.

Career

Van Hofweegen represented the Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Paralympics held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and he won the silver medal in the men's 400 metre freestyle S6 event.[1][2] He also competed in the men's 50 metre freestyle S6 and men's 100 metre freestyle S6 where he respectively finished in 8th and 5th place in the final.

At the 2016 IPC Swimming European Championships held in Funchal, Madeira, he won the silver medal in the men's 100m freestyle S6 event.[3] He also won the bronze medals in the men's 400m freestyle S6 event and in the 100m backstroke S6 event.

At the 2018 World Para Swimming European Championships held in Dublin, Ireland, he won three gold medals: in the men's 50 metres freestyle S6 event, in the men's 100 metres freestyle S6 event, in the men's 400 metres freestyle S6 event. He also won the bronze medal in the 4 x 100 metres medley relay event.

In 2021, Van Hofweegen represented the Netherlands at the 2020 Summer Paralympics held in Tokyo, Japan.[4] He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke S6 and men's 100 metre freestyle S6 events and in both events he advanced to compete in the final.[4] He also finished in 5th place in the men's 4 × 100 metre medley relay 34pts event.[4]

References

  1. ↑ "Thijs van Hofweegen". paralympic.org.
  2. ↑ "Driemaal zilver Nederlanders op Paralympische Spelen". NRC Handelsblad (in Dutch). 14 September 2016.
  3. ↑ "Dubbel goud voor Nederlandse zwemmers op EK". TeamNL (in Dutch). 3 May 2016.
  4. 1 2 3 "Swimming Results Book" (PDF). 2020 Summer Paralympics. Archived (PDF) from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
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