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Born in Maastricht to Cees-Rijn van den Hoogenband and Astrid Verver, a former Dutch 800m freestyler silver medalist at the European Championships. Van den Hoogenband grew up in Geldrop, where he swam for PSV Eindhoven. His father is a team doctor with the professional football team of the same club. In 1993, he achieved his first successes, performing well on the European Youth Olympic Days.
Prior to the Atlanta games, Astrid van den Hoogenband, who was coaching the Dutch team, became frustrated with the swimmers representing the Netherlands, feeling they had great potential that they were not able to live up to due to lack of adequate support. She pleaded with Cees to take action, as he carried much weight from his professional connections. After finally threatening to remove Pieter from the sport, Cees jumped in, creating a small foundation for the sport and signing up 20 initial sponsors who each paid $2500 to fund a team trainer. As his deals grew, the Dutch swimming team signed extremely lucrative deals with Philips, Nike, and Speedo. Enough funds were raised to open a swim school in Eindhoeven, van den Hoogenband's place of residence. The team eventually grew to ten. Pieter remained the Netherlands' brightest star, and along with fellow Dutchman Inge de Bruijn brought the Netherlands its first real victories in the sport.
His international breakthrough came in Atlanta. Aged 18, van den Hoogenband surprised by finishing 4th in both the 100 and 200 m freestyle at the 1996 Summer Olympics.
After winning no less than 6 gold medals at the 1999 European Championships, he was one of the favourites for the 2000 Summer Olympics, but his adversaries were strong. In the 200 m freestyle, he met AustraliaAustralia is the sixth-largest country in the world (geographically), the only one to occupy an entire continent, and the largest in the region of Australasia. Australia includes the island of Tasmania, which is an Australian State. Its neighbouring countn youngster Ian ThorpeIan James Thorpe (born October 13, 1982), Australian swimmer, is regarded as one of the greatest middle-distance swimmers of all time after winning the 200 and 400 metre freestyle races at the 2004 Olympics in Athens. He has won five Olympic gold medals,, favourite of the home crowd in SydneyThis is about the city of Sydney in Australia. For other meanings, see Sydney (disambiguation), or Sidney. Sydney Opera House Sydney is the capital city of the Australian state of New South Wales and Australia's largest and oldest city, founded in 1788.. In the semi-finals, van den Hoogenband set a new World Record, but Thorpe countered with a time only 0.02 slower. In an exciting final, van den Hoogenband equalled his time from the semi-finals to win the gold medal.
In the 100 m freestyle, van den Hoogenband again set a World Record in the semi-finals and won his second gold medal, defeating the 19921992 is a leap year starting on Wednesday. Events January January The Internet Society is formed. January 1 Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Perez de Cuellar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General January 1 George H. Bush becomes the fi and 19961996 was a leap year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty''. Events January January 5 Hamas operative Yahya Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone Jan champion, Aleksandr Popov. He won two more medals, both bronze, in the 50 m freestyle and as the final swimmer for the Dutch 4 x 200 m freestyle relay team.
At the 20012001 is a common year starting on Monday (see link for calendar), and also: The International Year of the Volunteer The United Nations Year of Dialogue Among Civilizations Events January January 1 A black monolith measuring approximately nine feet tall ap World Championships, van den Hoogenband won four silver medals in the 50, 100, 200 and 4 x 100 m freestyle events.
At the 2004 Summer Olympic Games in Athens, van den Hoogenband went on to win a gold medal in the 100m Free, as well as two silvers, one in the 200m Free and another swimming with Team Nederlands in the 4x100m Free relay.
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