Lisa Kruger
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Club | De Dolfijn, Amsterdam, the Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Coached by | Bram Dekker (national). Former coaches: Sander Nijhuis (national), Kira Fijn (school), Jeanet Mulder (national), Mark Faber (national), Corrie van Gent (club) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Lisa Kruger (born 4 September 2000) is a Dutch swimmer who is a member of the Dutch Paralympic team.[1]
She competes in the S10/SB9/SM10 classifications and her best event is the SB9 100 m breaststroke, winning the Paralympic gold medal and breaking a World and Paralympic record (1.15.47) at the Summer Paralympics in Rio the Janeiro, on 8 September 2016.[2] She competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, in Women's 100 metre breaststroke SB9, winning a silver medal; Women's 100 metre freestyle S10, winning a bronze medal; Women's 100 metre backstroke S10, winning a bronze medal; and Women's 200 metre individual medley SM10, winning a bronze medal.[3]
Arm condition
Kruger was born healthy in 2000, but in 2006 she fell from a wall, breaking several bones in her left arm. She had surgery which appeared to be successful. She then started with modern pentathlon (a sport where you compete in running, swimming, fencing, shooting and horseback riding). At 8 years old, she finished in 3rd place at the Dutch Youth Championships.
Her left arm started giving her more and more burden and pain and the arm started to grow crooked. She had less and less movement in her left arm and noticed that, in relation to her right arm, the left arm seemed to be shorter. She had to return to the hospital and there they discovered that the
International career
Lisa Kruger made her international debut at the IPC World Championships in 2015.
Lisa Kruger participated in the Paralympic Games at Rio de Janeiro 2016 and the Paralympic Games Tokyo 2020.
To honour her accomplishments at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro, the city of Harderwijk named the competition pool in Harderwijk "The Lisa Kruger Pool".[4]
Main results
- World and Paralympic record in the 100 m breaststroke SB9 during the Paralympic Games 2016.
- World record in the 200 m freestyle S10 (short course) in 2014.
- World record in the 200 m backstroke S10 (short course) in 2018. (Still stands today)
- World record in the 100m backstroke S10 (short course) in 2018. (Still stands today)
- European record in the 50m butterfly S10 (short course) in 2017.
- European record in the 100m Individual Medley SM10 (short course) in 2017.
- European record in the 200m Individual Medley SM10 at the European Championships 2018.
- European record in the 200m Individual Medley SM10 (short course) in 2018. (Still stands today)
- European record in the 100m freestyle S10 (short course) in 2018. (Still stands today)
- European record in the 50m backstroke S10 (short course) in 2019. (Still stands today)
- European record in the 50m freestyle S10 (short course) in 2021. (Still stands today)
Other information
- Lisa Kruger has been elected Sportswoman of the year 2019 and 2018 of the city of Harderwijk, the Netherlands
- European and Dutch Record S10 100m freestyle short course, December 2018
- European and Dutch Record SM10 200m IM short course, December 2018
- European and Dutch Record S10 50m backstroke short course, December 2018
- World, European and Dutch Record S10 100m backstroke short course, December 2018
- World, European and Dutch Record S10 200m backstroke short course, December 2018
- European and Dutch Record SM10 200m IM long course, August 2018
- European and Dutch Record SM10 200m IM long course, October 2017
- Lisa Kruger has been elected Sportswoman of the year 2016 of the city of Amersfoort, the Netherlands[5]
- Lisa Kruger is knighted by King Willem Alexander as "Ridder in de orde van Oranje Nassau"
- World, Paralympic, European and Dutch recordholder 100m breaststroke SB9 long course.
- World, European and Dutch record S10 200m freestyle short course 2014.
- World, European and Dutch record S10 200m backstroke short course 2014.
- European -and Dutch record S10 100m freestyle, 50m backstroke en 100m backstroke short course 2014/2015.
- European - and Dutch record S10 50m backstroke short course 2016.
- Dutch record 4 × 100 m Medley relay (Kruger-den Braber-Keijzer-Vermarien).
- Participated in 5 Finals during the Paralympic games 2016. Finishing 1st 100m breaststroke, 4th 200m IM, 5th 100m backstroke, 5th 100m freestyle and 6th medley relay.
Netherlands at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Website Lisa Kruger[6]
References
- ^ NOC*NSF. "Lisa Kruger". Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "KRUGER, Lisa". Rio 2016 Paralympics. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 31 October 2016. Retrieved 31 October 2016.
- ^ "Swimming: KRUGER, Lisa". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 3 September 2021.
- ^ Harderwijk, Gemeente. "Harderwijkse topsporter Lisa Kruger groots onthaald(22-09-2016)". Gemeente Harderwijk (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 10 November 2016. Retrieved 9 November 2016.
- ^ "Lisa Kruger uit Harderwijk sportvrouw van het jaar in Amersfoort". Omroep Gelderland (in Dutch). Retrieved 28 November 2016.
- ^ "Paralympisch zwemster". lisakruger.nl. Retrieved 13 November 2016.
External links
- Lisa Kruger at Paralympic.org
- Lisa Kruger at IPC.InfostradaSports.com (archived)
- Lisa Kruger at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)