Conny van Bentum

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| fullname = Cornelia van Bentum

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| strokes = Butterfly

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1965|8|12|df=y}}

| birth_place = Barneveld, Netherlands

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Cornelia "Conny" van Bentum (born 12 August 1965, in Barneveld) is a former butterfly and freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands.

Swimming career

Van Bentum competed in three consecutive Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1980. At each of those swimming tournaments she won a medal with the 4×100 m freestyle relay team: one bronze (1980), and two silvers (1984 and 1988).[https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/conny-van-bentum-1.html Conny van Bentum] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130923004437/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/conny-van-bentum-1.html |date=2013-09-23 }}. sports-reference.comJean-Louis Meuret (2007), [http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_b.pdf HistoFINA Volume IV – Tome IV]{{dead link|date=November 2016 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS. Special FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (50 m.) Before Rome 2009.

In 1988 she won the 'Open' ASA National British Championships over 50 metres freestyle, 100 metres freestyle and 200 metres freestyle.{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0503198546/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=e0a420a1|title="Results from Leeds." Times, 1 Aug. 1988, p. 31|publisher=Times Digital Archive}} She also won the 100 metres butterfly and the 200 metres butterfly titles in 1988.{{cite web|url=https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/IF0500527687/GDCS?u=oxfshlib&sid=GDCS&xid=973226ad|title=Downes, Steven. "Fast finish may end the hopes of Croft." Times, 29 July 1988, p. 37|publisher=Times Digital Archive}}