Inge Dekker is a Dutch former competitive swimmer, born in Assen on 18 August 1985, who specialised in butterfly and freestyle and earned her Olympic medals in relay teams. She won bronze in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay at the 2004 Athens Games with Inge de Bruijn, Marleen Veldhuis and Chantal Groot, then became Olympic champion in the same relay at Beijing in 2008 with Ranomi Kromowidjojo, Femke Heemskerk and Veldhuis, setting an Olympic record. At London in 2012 she was part of the Dutch relay that took silver behind Australia. Her younger sister Lia also swam for the Dutch national team. After surgery for cervical cancer in 2016 she returned to the Dutch team and swam at her fourth Olympics that summer in Rio de Janeiro.
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is a Dutch former competitive swimmer
Competed In: 2004 Summer Olympics, Olympic participation
won the bronze medal with the Dutch women's 4×100-metre freestyle relay team at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Competed In: 2008 Summer Olympics, Olympic participation
At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Dekker became Olympic champion
Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, Olympic participation
At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she was part of the Dutch 4 x 100 metre freestyle team
Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, Olympic participation
She made the Dutch swimming team for the 2016 Summer Olympics
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