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{{Short description|Dutch swimmer (born 1969)}}
{{Unreliable sources|date=June 2020}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|birth_date=17 July 1969
|birth_place=
|image=Karin Brienesse 1988.jpg
|caption=Karin Brienesse in 1988
|medaltemplates={{MedalSport | Women's [[Swimming (sport)|swimming]]}}
{{MedalCountry | the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[Swimming at the Summer Olympics|Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalSilver| [[Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988 Seoul]] | [[Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 4 × 100 metre freestyle relay|4×100 m freestyle]]}} 
{{MedalCompetition|[[World Aquatics Championships|World Championships (LC)]]<ref>Jean-Louis Meuret (2007), [http://www.fina.org/pdf/histoFina/HistoFINA_IV_b.pdf HistoFINA Volume IV – Tome IV]{{dead link|date=May 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}. MEDALLISTS AND STATISTICS. Special FINA WORLD SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (50 m.) Before Rome 2009.</ref>
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{{MedalSilver| [[1991 World Aquatics Championships|1991 Perth]] |4×200 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1986 World Aquatics Championships|1986 Madrid]] |4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1991 World Aquatics Championships|1991 Perth]] |4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalCompetition|[[LEN European Aquatics Championships|European Championships (LC)]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[1991 European Aquatics Championships|1991 Athens]]|4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1987 European Aquatics Championships|1987 Strasbourg]] | 4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalSilver| [[1991 European Aquatics Championships|1991 Athens]] | 100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze| [[1985 European Aquatics Championships|1985 Sofia]] | 4×100 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1991 European Aquatics Championships|1991 Athens]]|4×200 m freestyle}}
{{MedalBronze|[[1991 European Aquatics Championships|1991 Athens]]|4×100 m medley}}
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'''Karin Brienesse''' (born 17 July 1969 in [[Breda]]) is a former [[freestyle swimming|freestyle]] and [[butterfly swimming|butterfly]] [[swimmer]] from the [[Netherlands]], who competed in three consequentive [[Summer Olympics]] for her native country, starting in [[Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics|1988]]. There she won the silver medal with the Dutch 4×100&nbsp;m freestyle relay team, behind [[East Germany]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418070023/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/br/karin-brienesse-1.html Karin Brienesse]. sports-reference.com</ref> Three years later Brienesse won the title in the same event at the [[European LC Championships 1991]] in [[Athens, Greece]].<ref>[http://www.gbrathletics.com/sport/swimecw.htm EUROPEAN SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS (WOMEN)]. gbrathletics.com</ref>

==References==
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{{Footer European Champions 4x100m Freestyle Women}}
{{Footer Netherlands Swimming 1988 Summer Olympics}}
{{Footer Netherlands Swimming 1992 Summer Olympics}}
{{Footer Netherlands Swimming 1996 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Breda]]
[[Category:Swimmers from North Brabant]]
[[Category:Dutch female butterfly swimmers]]
[[Category:Dutch female freestyle swimmers]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1992 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:World Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:Olympic silver medalists in swimming]]
[[Category:20th-century Dutch sportswomen]]


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