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Dutch swimmer (1925?2014)
Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher
(24 February 1925 – 8 January 2014)
[1]
was a
freestyle
swimmer
from the
Netherlands
who won two medals at the
Summer Olympics
. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in
London
(1948), she won the silver medal four years later in
Helsinki, Finland
, in the same event. Individually, she was sixth in the 100 m freestyle at both games.
[2]
She also won two gold and two silver medals at the 1947 and 1950
European Championships
.
[3]
In 1950, while touring Australia with
Geertje Wielema
, Schuhmacher met Johan Heijting, a Dutch
animal husbandry
specialist who had recently immigrated to Australia. They married on 22 March 1952,
[4]
and one week after the 1952 Olympics, Heijting-Schuhmacher moved to her husband's breeding farm near
Brisbane
.
[1]
[2]
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