Haike van Stralen’s biography, net worth, fact, career, awards and life story

Intro Olympic swimmer
Is Athlete 
Swimmer 
From Netherlands 
Type Sports 
Gender female
Birth 22 April 1983
Age: 37 years

Haike Eva van Stralen (born April 22, 1983) is a Dutch former swimmer, who specialized in freestyle events. She is a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004), and double Dutch short-course champion in the 200 and 400 m freestyle. Van Stralen also played for De Kempvis Swimming Club in Spijkenisse, under her personal coach Dick Bergsma.

Van Stralen made her first Dutch team, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. She placed eleventh, along with Carla Geurts, Chantal Groot, and Manon van Rooijen, in the 4×200 m freestyle relay with a time of 8:08.53.

Four years later, at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Van Stralen competed again in the women’s 4×200 m freestyle relay as a member of the Dutch team. She claimed the 200 m freestyle from the Dutch National Championships in Amsterdam, posting her relay entry time of 2:02.21. Teaming with Groot, Marleen Veldhuis, and Celina Lemmen in heat two, van Stralen swam a second leg, and lowered her personal best to 2:01.80. Van Stralen and the entire Dutch team missed the top 8 final by almost two seconds, finishing only in fifth place and ninth overall with a final time of 8:08.96.

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