Marrit Steenbergen

Marrit Steenbergen (born 11 January 2000) is a Dutch competitive swimmer. She won gold medals in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle events at the 2022 European Championships held in Rome, Italy.

Marrit Steenbergen

Steenbergen with one of her Kazan 2015 medals
Personal information
National team	Netherlands
Born	(2000-01-11) 11 January 2000 (age 25) Ooststellingwerf, Netherlands
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight	61 kg (134 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle, medley
Medal record Women's swimming Representing the  Netherlands World Championships (LC) 2024 Doha 100 m freestyle 2024 Doha 4×100 m freestyle 2025 Singapore 100 m freestyle 2015 Kazan 4×100 m freestyle 2015 Kazan 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2022 Budapest 4×100 m mixed medley 2023 Fukuoka 100 m freestyle 2025 Singapore 4×100 m freestyle World Championships (SC) 2022 Melbourne 100 m medley 2016 Windsor 4×100 m freestyle 2021 Abu Dhabi 4×50 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 100 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 200 m freestyle 2022 Melbourne 4×50 m mixed freestyle European Championships (LC) 2016 London 4×100 m freestyle 2016 London 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2022 Rome 100 m freestyle 2022 Rome 200 m freestyle 2022 Rome 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Rome 4×100 m mixed medley 2020 Budapest 4×100 m freestyle 2020 Budapest 4×100 m mixed freestyle 2022 Rome 200 m individual medley 2016 London 4×200 m freestyle 2022 Rome 4×100 m freestyle 2022 Rome 4×100 m medley European Championships (SC) 2015 Netanya 4×50 m medley 2021 Kazan 200 m freestyle 2015 Netanya 4×50 m freestyle 2015 Netanya 100 m medley 2021 Kazan 100 m freestyle Junior level European Games 2015 Baku 100 m freestyle 2015 Baku 50 m freestyle 2015 Baku 200 m freestyle 2015 Baku 4×100 m freestyle 2015 Baku 4×200 m freestyle 2015 Baku 4×100 m medley

Career

In 2013, Steenbergen competed at the 2013 European Youth Summer Olympic Festival, taking 2 silver medals (in 50 m freestyle and 100 m freestyle).

In June 2015, 15-year-old Steenbergen competed at the inaugural 2015 European Games in Baku, where she won gold in 100 m freestyle ahead of Russia's Arina Openysheva clocking in at 53.97 s.^[1] Steenbergen also won five silver medals (in the 50 m freestyle, 200 m freestyle, 4 × 200 m freestyle, 4 × 100 m medley, and 4 × 100 m freestyle). The swimming part of the Games were open to junior only.

Steenbergen went on to represent the Netherlands at the 2015 World Aquatics Championships, competing in two relay events. She won a silver medal on the first day of the competition in the women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay, swimming the second leg in the heats and the third leg in the final. She won another silver medal as part of the mixed 4 × 100 m freestyle, swimming the third leg in the heats. She did not swim in the final.

At the 2015 European Short Course Championships in December 2015, Steenbergen won her first international championship medal at the senior level in an individual event. She won the bronze medal in the 100-meter individual medley in 59.00 seconds, finishing behind Katinka Hosszú, who broke the world record, and Siobhan-Marie O'Connor.^[2]

Steenbergen on the starting block, during the Rio 2016 Olympics.

Steenbergen qualified for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro in the 4 × 100 and 4 × 200 meter freestyle relays.^[3] In the 4×100 meter freestyle relay the team finished 4th in the final, with Steenbergen swimming the first leg. She also swam the 200 meter individual medley and finished 34th in the heats.

Personal bests

Short course[4] Event Time Date Location 50 m freestyle 24.41 2022-10-21 Berlin, Germany 100 m freestyle 51.25 2022-12-15 Melbourne, Australia 200 m freestyle 1:52.28 2022-12-18 Melbourne, Australia 100 m medley 57.53NR 2022-12-16 Melbourne, Australia 200 m medley 2:04.94NR 2022-12-13 Melbourne, Australia

Long course[4] Event Time Date Location 50 m freestyle 24.42 2023-04-09 Eindhoven, Netherlands 100 m freestyle 52.26 2024-02-16 Doha, Qatar 200 m freestyle 1:55.51 2023-07-26 Fukuoka, Japan 200 m medley 2:09.16NR 2023-04-08 Rotterdam, Netherlands 400 m medley 4:44.28NR 2023-04-07 Rotterdam, Netherlands

See also

• List of European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming (women)