Olympic bronze medallist Tes Schouten<\/strong> is to relocate to Antwerp, Belgium, where she will reunite with former coach Mark Faber<\/strong> with whom she worked for eight years.<\/p>\n It comes after Caspar Corbeau<\/strong>, who won 200m breaststroke bronze at Paris 2024, announced last week that he would be joining up with Faber who was appointed Belgium head coach in November last year.<\/p>\n Schouten and Corbeau trained under Faber in Amsterdam alongside double Olympic silver medallist Arno Kamminga\u00a0<\/strong>and Kenzo Simons<\/strong>, four-time world short-course medallist.<\/p>\n Kamminga announced in May<\/a> that he was moving to Hong Kong where he’d be coached by Tom Rushton\u00a0<\/strong>meaning that three of the quartet plus Faber have now relocated their training bases away from the Dutch federation.<\/p>\n Schouten was third in the 200m breaststroke at Paris 2024 behind Kate Douglass<\/strong> and Tatjana Smith<\/strong> which followed gold in a Dutch record of 2:19.81<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0silver over 100m<\/a>\u00a0behind\u00a0Tang Qianting<\/strong>\u00a0at the\u00a0Doha World Championships<\/strong>.<\/p>\n However, in September last year she began to experience nerve pain on the left side of her face which lasted for two to three weeks before she was hospitalised for 11 days in November with nerve pain, loss of power and function on the entire left side of her body.\u00a0In April Schouten announced she wouldn’t be competing<\/a> at the World Championships that start a week on Sunday in Singapore.<\/p>\n Schouten revealed on Tuesday that she’d be moving to Antwerp in the European autumn to work with Faber. Along with Corbeau, training mates will include Roos Vanotterdijk<\/strong>, who won a medal of each colour at last year’s European Championships, and Florine Gaspard<\/strong>, who set the 24.42 Belgian 50 free record in April.<\/p>\n She posted to social media, saying: “I am very excited to announce that i\u2019ll move to Antwerp this fall to continue training with my coach Mark Faber again. After having worked together for the 8 years, I know this is the best decision for me as an athlete and as a person. Im feeling confident and happy with this \u2018new\u2019 but familiar start in Belgium \ud83c\udde7\ud83c\uddea\ud83c\udfca\u200d\u2640\ufe0f<\/p>\n “Health is doing better, but there\u2019s still many challenges ahead of me. Im buzzing with excitement to start my swimming career again after a tough year. Let\u2019s see what the future holds \ud83d\ude0b\u263a\ufe0f\ud83e\udde1 <\/p>\n
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