Glenn Surgeloose

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Glenn Surgeloose
Personal information
National teamFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Born (1989-09-04) 4 September 1989 (age 35)
Ghent, Belgium
Height1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle, butterfly
ClubLiege Natation [1]
CoachAndre Henveaux [1]
Medal record
European Championships (LC)
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2016 London 4x200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2014 Berlin 4x200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2016 London 4×100 m freestyle
European Championships (SC)
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2015 Netanya 200 m freestyle
European Junior Championships
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Antwerp 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg 2007 Antwerp 4x100 m freestyle

Glenn Surgeloose (born 4 September 1989) is a Belgian swimmer, who specializes in sprint freestyle events. [1] [2] He collected a bronze medal in the 200 m freestyle at the 2007 European Junior Swimming Championships in Antwerp, Belgium. [3] Surgeloose is a member of Brabo Antwerp, and is coached and trained by Ronald Gaastra. [4]

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Career

Surgeloose made his first Belgian team, as a 19-year-old, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he qualified for the men's 200 m freestyle. He cleared a FINA B-standard entry time of 1:49.36 from the Mare Nostrum Barcelona International Trophy in Spain. [5] [6] He cruised to seventh place and thirtieth overall in heat five by a tenth of a second (0.10) behind Greece's Andreas Zisimos in 1:48.92. [7]

At the 2010 European Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary, Surgeloose broke a new long-course Belgian record of 1:48.29 to round out the finale in the 200 m freestyle. Surgeloose's personal best and overhauling effort in the final propelled him up to the top 25 world rankings. [8] [9]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Surgeloose competed in both individual and relay swimming events. A year earlier, he posted a FINA B-cut of 1:48.96 (200 m freestyle) from the World Championships in Shanghai, China. [10] [11] In the 200 m freestyle, Surgeloose challenged seven other swimmers on the third heat, including three-time Olympian Tiago Venâncio of Portugal and semifinalist Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or of Israel. He raced to fourth place by six hundredths of a second (0.06) behind Venezuela's Cristian Quintero in his personal textile best of 1:48.77. Surgeloose failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-fifth overall in the preliminaries. [12] Surgeloose also placed twelfth as a member of the Belgian team in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay. Teaming with Pieter Timmers, Dieter Dekoninck, and Louis Croenen, Surgeloose swam the second leg with a split of 1:48.22 to set a Belgian record of 7:14.44 in the heats. [13]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he competed in the 100 m and 200 m freestyle events and helped Belgium's 4 × 100 m freestyle and 4 × 200 m freestyle teams into the final of both events. [14]

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References

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