 van Amelsvoort in 1996 | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para swimming | |||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | S8 | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Syreeta van Amelsvoort is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer. She represented the Netherlands at the 1996 Summer Paralympics and at the 2000 Summer Paralympics and in total she won two gold medals, one silver medal and one bronze medal. [1] She won a gold medal on each occasion. In 1996, she also won a silver and a bronze medal.
In 2000 she received the Order of the Netherlands Lion decoration. [2]
The Netherlands participated in the inaugural Paralympic Games in 1960 in Rome, where it sent a delegation of five athletes. The country has participated in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics. It made its Winter Paralympics début in 1984, and has taken part in every subsequent edition of the Games, except 2006. The Netherlands was the host country of the 1980 Summer Paralympics, in Arnhem.
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