Jenny Kastein

Dutch swimmer
The basics

Quick Facts

IntroDutch swimmer
PlacesNetherlands
wasAthlete Swimmer
Work fieldSports
Gender
Female
Birth24 January 1913, Amsterdam
Death20 October 2000Zwolle (aged 87 years)
The details

Biography

Jeannette "Jenny" Hermine Kastein (24 January 1913 – 20 October 2000) was a Dutch breaststroke swimmer. She won a silver medal in the 200 m breaststroke at the 1931 European Championships, behind Cecelia Wolstenholme. Next year she set four world records in the 400 m and 500 m breastroke (unofficial events), but could not compete in the Olympics due to the overall financial problems related to the Great Depression. She won the national titles in the 200 m in 1933, 1935 and 1936, yet her performance declined, and at the 1936 Summer Olympics she finished in a mere seventh place.
In 1942, Kastein married Evert Heleonardus Scheijde, a physician; they had two sons.

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