Marcel Wouda<\/strong> has been appointed head coach of distance swimming as the Netherlands steps up its preparations for the Olympic cycle into the 2028 Games in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n Wouda started his new role at the Royal Dutch Swimming Federation<\/strong> (KNZB) on 1 January where he joins fellow coaches Patrick Pearson<\/strong> (head of the Eindhoven high-performance centre), Bram Dekker<\/strong> (TeamNL Para-swimming) and Peter Bishop<\/strong>, who was appointed head coach in November 2024 after previous incumbent Mark Faber<\/strong> moved to head up the Belgium team.<\/p>\n The quartet will now plan for LA2028 with the Netherlands having won one gold at Paris 2024 courtesy of Sharon van Rouwendaal <\/strong>in the 10k with Tes Schouten<\/strong> and Caspar Corbeau<\/strong> each claiming bronze in their respective 200m breaststroke races.<\/p>\n The 52-year-old, who won Olympic 4×2 bronze at Sydney 2000, has been active on poolside since 2003 when he was appointed KNZB youth coach with Ranomi Kromowidjojo<\/strong> among his charges.<\/p>\n He became head coach at the high-performance centre in Eindhoven in 2006 where he continued to work with Kromowidjojo.<\/p>\n Wouda guided Maarten van der Weijden<\/strong> to Olympic 10k gold at Beijing 2008 and was open water coach at the Rio Games eight years later when Sharon van Rouwendaal<\/strong> and Ferry Weertman<\/strong> claimed a Dutch golden double.<\/p>\n Named head coach of the Eindhoven National Training Centre (NTC) in October 2016, Wouda then turned his attention to the 2032 Medley Project in a bid to progress the IM in the Netherlands in which he was world 200IM champion in 1998.<\/p>\n Sjors Lommerts<\/strong>, technical director KNZB, said: “We are very happy that Marcel Wouda is back on board with us full-time. With his knowledge and experience, he is a huge reinforcement for the coaching staff of our elite swimmers, both in the pool and open water.”<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marcel Wouda Appointed Netherlands Coach For Distance Swimming Marcel Wouda has been appointed head coach of distance swimming as the Netherlands steps up its preparations for the Olympic cycle into<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7575,"featured_media":603567,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"dois","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,122074],"tags":[40554,47484,51221,124808,573,123193,27891,35244,27568,75876],"class_list":["post-603562","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-europe","tag-arno-kamminga","tag-caspar-corbeau","tag-ferry-weertman","tag-knzb","tag-marcel-wouda","tag-mark-faber","tag-peter-bishop","tag-ranomi-kromowidjojo","tag-sharon-van-rouwendaal","tag-tes-schouten"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"\r\n