Career
She dominated the 200m breaststroke event in the 1950s, setting four world records in 1956-1957, one under the old rules and three under the new rules that disallowed long underwater swimming. However, she could not participate in the 1956 Summer Olympics that were boycotted by the Netherlands in protest of the suppression of the Hungarian Revolution by the Soviet Union. At the 1960 Summer Olympics she was part of the Dutch medley team that broke the Olympic record in the preliminaries.
However, they finished fourth in the final.
She was also fourth in the individual 200 m breastroke event.
