Nyls Korstanje
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Born | 5 February 1999 Sneek, Netherlands[1] |
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) |
| Weight | 76 kg (168 lb) |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Swimming |
| Strokes | Freestyle Butterfly |
| Club | North Carolina State University |
| Coach | Braden Holloway (NC State) |
Medal record | |
Nyls Korstanje (born 5 February 1999) is a Dutch swimmer who competed for North Carolina State University and represented the Netherlands in the 2020 Tokyo and 2024 Paris Olympics. A prolific swimmer in international competition, he won two golds at the European Championships, with one in the 4x50 mixed freestyle relay in Glasgow in 2019, and one in the 4x100 mixed medley in Rome in 2022. In Long and Short Course competition, at the World Championships between 2016 and 2024, he won two silver and four bronze medals.[2]
Korstanje was born 5 February 1999 in Sneek, Netherlands, and attended High School at Sint Joris College Eindhoven.[3]
North Carolina State
[edit]During his collegiate years, he competed for North Carolina State University under Head Coach Braden Holloway.[4] At NC State, in 2023, he was an NCAA Champion in the 200 medley relay. He was an All American at NC State twenty-two times from 2019-2023, in various years in the 50 and 100 freestyle, the 100 butterfly, the 200 and 400 freestyle relay, and the 400 medley relay. Korstanje was an Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC) Champion a total of 11 times from 2019-2023. In 2019, he was a conference champion in the 200 and 400 medley relay, and the 200 freestyle relay. In 2020, he was a conference champion in the 50 and 100 freestyle, and both the 200 medley relay and the 400 freestyle relay. In 2022, he was again a conference champion in the 400 medley relay, and in 2023 was a conference champion in the 200 medley relay, the 200 freestyle relay, and the 400 medley relay.[3]
Outstanding in both freestyle, and butterfly, Korstanje was rated second in NC State all-time event standings in both the 50 Freestyle and 100 Butterfly events.[3] Recognized for his achievements in his first year at NC State in 2019, he was an Atlantic Coast Conference All-Conference Men's Freshman of the Year. A solid student, in 2019, 2022, and 2023, he was part of the Academic All-ACC Team, and in 2020 was a College Swimming Coaches's of America Association (CSCAA) Scholar All-American.
International career
[edit]Korstanje helped set a new European record in the 4×50 meter freestyle mixed relay event in Copenhagen, Denmark on 16 December 2017 of 1:28.39. The medal held through 7 December 2019.[2]
He competed in the 4×100 m mixed freestyle relay event at the 2018 European Aquatics Championships in Glasgow, Scottland, winning the silver medal. As shown in his Medal Record at right, in the 2016, 2022, and 2024 World Aquatics Long and Short Course Championships, he won a total of two silver and four bronze medals in the 4x50 freestyle and 4x50 mixed freestyle relay events and the 4x100 medley and mixed medley relay events, as well as the 50 meter butterfly. In the European Long and Short Course Championships he won two golds and two silvers in 2018, 2019, 2020, and 2022 in the 4x50 and 4x100 mixed freestyle and mixed medley events.[5][2]
Olympics
[edit]2020 Tokyo
[edit]At the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he placed sixth in the mixed 4x100 medley relay with a combined team time of 3:41.25, and twelfth in both the 4x100 meter freestyle relay where his team recorded a combined time of 3:14.07 and the 100 meter butterfly where he swam a 51.80, around 2.35 seconds behind American gold medalist Caleb Dressel.[2]
2024 Paris
[edit]Improving his finishes at the 2024 Paris Olympics in early August while again competing for the Netherlands, he placed sixth in the men's 100-meter butterfly with a time of 50.83. His relay team placed eighth in the men's 4x100 medley relay where he swam the third leg with the Dutch team of Kai Van Westering, Caspar Korbeau, and Stan Pijenberg, recording a combined time in the finals of 3:32.52. He placed sixth in the mixed 4x100 meter medley relay with a combined time of 3:43.12.[6][7][8]
Personal bests
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References
[edit]- ^ "Nyls Korstanje". Tokyo 2020. Retrieved 1 August 2021.
- ^ a b c d "Olympedia Biography Nyls Korstanje". olympedia.org. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
- ^ a b c "North Carolina State Swimming and Diving Roster, Nyls Korstanje". gopack.com. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
- ^ "July 19, 2024, Tim Peeler, North Carolina State, A Baker's Dozen Olympics". ncsu.edu. Retrieved July 5, 2025.
- ^ Final results
- ^ "Packinsider, Bradham, Matthew, Recapping the Performances of NC State's Swimmers in the 2024 Summer Olympics". packinsider.com. Retrieved July 14, 2025.
- ^ "Olympics, Swimming", Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, August 4, 2024, pg. C4
- ^ "Olympics, Men, Swimming, 4x100 meter medley relay final", Atlanta Constitution, Atlanta, Georgia, August 5, 2024, pg. B6
- ^ a b "Nyls Korstanje Personal Bests". swimrankings.net. Retrieved 5 November 2021.
External links
[edit]- Nyls Korstanje at World Aquatics
- Nyls Korstanje at SwimRankings.net
- Nyls Korstanje at Olympics.com
- Nyls Korstanje at Olympedia
- Nyls Korstanje at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- 1999 births
- Living people
- Dutch male breaststroke swimmers
- Dutch male freestyle swimmers
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Swimmers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Medalists at the FINA World Swimming Championships (25 m)
- NC State Wolfpack men's swimmers
- Dutch expatriate swimmers in the United States
- Sportspeople from Sneek
- Swimmers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- 21st-century Dutch sportsmen