Danielle Villars

Danielle Villars (born March 6, 1993) is a Swiss swimmer who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events.[1][2] She has won multiple Swiss titles and currently holds four national records in both freestyle and butterfly (100 and 200 m). Villars is a resident athlete for the Limmat Sharks, and is coached and trained by Dirk Reinicke.[1]

Danielle Villars
Personal information
National team  Switzerland
Born (1993-03-06) 6 March 1993
Zurich, Switzerland
Height1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight60 kg (132 lb)
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle, butterfly
ClubLimmat Sharks (SUI)[1]
College teamSouthern Methodist University (USA)[1]
CoachDirk Reinicke[1]

Villars made her international debut at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, where she rounded out the finale to eighth place in the 100 (57.72) and 200 m freestyle (2:04.89).[3][4]

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Villars maintained her program by qualifying for two swimming events. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 59.57 (100 m butterfly) from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, and 2:01.47 (200 m freestyle) from the Olympic trials in Zurich.[5][6][7] In the 100 m butterfly, Villars broke her own Swiss record of 59.42 to share a top seed in the second heat and a twenty-sixth-place tie with Spain's Judit Ignacio Sorribes on the first day of the Games.[8] In the 200 m freestyle, Villars raced to second place on the first heat by 1.06 seconds behind Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang, outside her personal best of 2:03.55. Villars failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall in the preliminaries.[9]

Shortly after her first Olympics, Villars attended Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas, where she was a biology major, and trained as a varsity swimmer for the SMU Mustangs.

References
  1. "Danielle Villars". London 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Danielle Villars". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  3. "Youth Olympic Games: Andrii Govorov Smokes 50 Fly". Swimming World Magazine. 18 August 2010. Archived from the original on 27 May 2014. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  4. "Youth Olympic Games: Tang Yi, Andrii Govorov Post World-Ranked Times". Swimming World Magazine. 17 August 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2013. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  5. "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 100 m butterfly" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  6. "Qualifying Athletes – Women's 200 m freestyle" (PDF). FINA. Archived from the original (PDF) on 16 November 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  7. Braden, Keith (16 March 2012). "3 more national records go down in Switzerland". SwimSwam. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  8. "Women's 100m Butterfly Heat 2". London 2012. Retrieved 22 April 2013.
  9. "Women's 200m Freestyle Heat 1". London 2012. Retrieved 3 April 2013.


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