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{{short description|Luxembourgish politician and sportswoman}}
[[File:Nancy Arendt (chd.lu) (cropped).jpg|thumb|Kemp-Arendt in 2024.]]
'''Nancy Kemp-Arendt''' (born 22 May 1969, in [[Esch-sur-Alzette]]), née '''Nancy Arendt''', is a politician and former athlete from [[Luxembourg]]. She competed in [[triathlon]] and [[swimming (sport)|swimming]]. She now sits in the national legislature, the [[Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg|Chamber of Deputies]], for the [[Christian Social People's Party]].

Kemp-Arendt competed under her maiden name, Nancy Arendt, at the [[1988 Summer Olympics]], in [[Seoul]]. Participating in the [[Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 100 metre breaststroke|100m breaststroke]] and [[Swimming at the 1988 Summer Olympics – Women's 200 metre breaststroke|200m breaststroke]], she finished twenty-ninth and thirty-first respectively. After converting to triathlon, Kemp-Arendt competed in that sport's first appearance in the Summer Olympics, [[Luxembourg at the 2000 Summer Olympics|in 2000]]. She took tenth place with a total time of 2:03:14.94. She has won the title of [[Luxembourgish Sportswoman of the Year]] a total of six times – two for swimming and four for triathlon – making her the only athlete (male or female) to have won it for success in two different sports.

After her early sporting success, Arendt went into politics, becoming a member for the [[Christian Social People's Party]] (CSV) in 1993.<ref name="CHD.lu bio">{{cite web | title=Nancy Arendt épouse Kemp | url=http://www.chd.lu/wps/portal/public/FicheDepute?ref=22508 | publisher=[[Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg|Chamber of Deputies]] | language=French | accessdate=29 January 2012}}</ref>  She was appointed to the [[Chamber of Deputies of Luxembourg|Chamber of Deputies]] to fill a vacancy on 23 January 1996, and finished out the term until the [[1999 Luxembourgish legislative election|legislative election]] in 1999. In that election, she finished eleventh on the CSV list for the [[Circonscription Sud (Luxembourg)|Sud]] constituency, with seven being elected. However, this was high enough to ensure her replacement of [[Ady Jung]] on 3 June 2003, in whose place she served until the following year.<ref name="CHD.lu bio" />  She placed eleventh again in the [[2004 Luxembourgish legislative election|following election]], but on a landslide CSV victory that saw nine CSV members elected from Sud, allowing her to be appointed to fill one of three minister-vacated seats, and has sat in the Chamber since then.<ref name="CHD.lu bio" />

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==External links==
* [http://www.chd.lu/fr/organisation/membres/membres.jsp?back=schema.jsp&ID=48 Chamber of Deputies official website biography]
* {{World Triathlon}}
* {{World Aquatics|1064528}}
* {{Olympedia}}
* {{Olympics.com}}

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[[Category:Members of the Chamber of Deputies (Luxembourg)]]
[[Category:Christian Social People's Party politicians]]
[[Category:Luxembourgian female swimmers]]
[[Category:Luxembourgian female triathletes]]
[[Category:Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Triathletes at the 2000 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Luxembourgian sportsperson-politicians]]
[[Category:1969 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Esch-sur-Alzette]]
[[Category:Olympic swimmers for Luxembourg]]
[[Category:Female breaststroke swimmers]]
[[Category:Olympic triathletes for Luxembourg]]


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