Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher

Dutch swimmer

Irma Schuhmacher in 1951

Personal information

Born

24 February 1925
Ginneken en Bavel, the Netherlands

Died

8 January 2014 (aged 88)
Berkeley Vale, New South Wales, Australia

Sport

Swimming

Club

RDZ, Rotterdam

Coach

Ma Braun

Medal record

Representing Netherlands

Olympic Games
	1952 Helsinki	4×100 m freestyle
	1948 London	4×100 m freestyle
European Championships
	1950 Vienna	100 m freestyle
	1950 Vienna	4×100 m relay
	1947 Monte Carlo	4×100 m relay
	1950 Vienna	400 m freestyle

Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (24 February 1925 – 8 January 2014)^[1] was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London (1948), she won the silver medal four years later in Helsinki, Finland, in the same event. Individually, she was sixth in the 100 m freestyle at both games.^[2] She also won two gold and two silver medals at the 1947 and 1950 European Championships.^[3]

In 1950, while touring Australia with Geertje Wielema, Schuhmacher met Johan Heijting, a Dutch animal husbandry specialist who had recently immigrated to Australia. They married on 22 March 1952,^[4] and one week after the 1952 Olympics, Heijting-Schuhmacher moved to her husband's breeding farm near Brisbane.^[1]^[2]

References

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^ ^a ^b Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher's obituary Archived 2014-01-22 at the Wayback Machine (in Dutch)
^ ^a ^b Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher Archived 2012-11-13 at the Wayback Machine. www.sports-reference.com
^ EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN). gbrathletics.com
^ Huwelijk Irma Schuhmacher. Dutch Nationaal Archief