Roshendra Vrolijk

Roshendra Vrolijk
Personal information
Full name Roshendra Julienne Mercedes
Vrolijk
National team  Aruba
Born (1984-11-03) 3 November 1984
Oranjestad, Aruba
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight 56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Freestyle

Roshendra Vrolijk (born November 3, 1984) is an Aruban former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events.[1] She is one of Aruba's first Olympic swimmers, alongside Davy Bisslik, and also a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004).

Vrolijk made her Olympic debut, as Aruba's youngest athlete (aged 15), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out Armenia's Yuliana Mikheeva to pick up a sixth seed and sixty-second overall by 0.49 of a second in 29.31.[2]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Vrolijk was elected by the Aruban Olympic Committee to become the nation's first ever female flag bearer in the opening ceremony.[3] She qualified again for the 50 m freestyle by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.13.[4] Swimming in heat four, she raced to a third spot by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Moldova's Maria Tregubova in 28.43. Vrolijk failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.[5][6]

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