Robert Lijesen is a Dutch Swimmer, who is specialized in the 50 and 100 m freestyle.
Education
He holds the European record in the 4 × 100 m freestyle Short Course together with Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele in 3:09.18 swum during the World South Carolina Championships 2008 in Manchester they finished second in this event behind the United States who swum a world record in the same race.
Career
Lijesen made his international senior debut at the 2006 FINA Short Course World Championships in Shanghai with the 23rd place in the 100 m freestyle. 2008
He was part of the team that broke the European record in the 4 × 100 m freestyle (South Carolina) at the 2008 FINA Short Course World Championships alongside Bas van Velthoven, Mitja Zastrow and Robin van Aggele winning a silver medal doing southern Individually he reached 17th place in the 50 m freestyle.
With the 4 × 100 m medley relay he reached an 8th place together with Bastiaan Tamminga, van Aggele and Joeri Verlinden swimming a new national record.
Individually he ended 12th in the 100 m freestyle, in the 50 m freestyle he reached the final where he finished 6th. At the 2008 Summer Olympics he finished 10th in the 4 × 100 m freestyle with Zastrow, van den Hoogenband and van Velthoven.
In the 50 m freestyle, his only individual start, he reached a 32nd spot.