![]() Frank Drost (right) in 1982 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Amersfoort, Utrecht, the Netherlands | 22 March 1963|||||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Club | AZ&PC, Amersfoort | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Frank Willem Drost (born 22 March 1963) is a former freestyle and butterfly swimmer from the Netherlands who competed at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics. His best individual Olympic result came in 1984, when he finished in sixth place (1:51.62) in the 200 m freestyle.[1]
His elder brother Peter was also a swimmer. They are not related to Monique.[1] Drost won two bronze medals at the 1985 European Championships in Sofia, Bulgaria.[2] Nationally, he collected five titles in 1987 and 1988, in 100 m and 200 m butterfly and 200 m freestyle. Between 1982 and 1986 he set 15 records in 200–1500 m freestyle, 200 m butterfly and 4×100 m freestyle relay.[3]
References
- ^ a b Frank Drost Archived 7 November 2012 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ European Swimming Championships (Men). gbrathletics.com
- ^ Frank Drost Archived 30 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine. zwemmenindepolder.nl
- 1963 births
- Living people
- Olympic swimmers for the Netherlands
- Dutch male freestyle swimmers
- Dutch male butterfly swimmers
- Swimmers at the 1984 Summer Olympics
- Swimmers at the 1988 Summer Olympics
- Sportspeople from Amersfoort
- European Aquatics Championships medalists in swimming
- Summer World University Games medalists in swimming
- FISU World University Games gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 1987 Summer Universiade
- 20th-century Dutch people
- Dutch swimming biography stubs