| Kyle Stolk | |
| Fullname: | Kyle Stolk |
| Strokes: | Freestyle |
| Club: | PSV Eindhoven |
| Coach: | Marcel Wouda |
| Birth Date: | 28 June 1996 |
| Birth Place: | Edenvale, Gauteng, South Africa |
| Height: | 1.860NaN0 |
| Weight: | 840NaN0 |
| Show-Medals: | yes |
Kyle Stolk (born 28 June 1996) is a Dutch competitive swimmer who specializes in freestyle events.[1] He won a silver medal in the boys' 200 m freestyle at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, and finished seventh as a member of the Dutch swimming squad in the 4×200 m freestyle relay at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro.[2] Stolk currently trains for the swimming league at PSV Eindhoven, under the tutelage of his coach and three-time Olympian Marcel Wouda.[3]
Stolk launched into the global scene as a junior swimmer at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing. There, he nearly charged to the front at the final stretch of the boys' 200 m freestyle, before fading to a runner-up finish in 1:48.59, trailing the Italian swimmer Nicolangelo di Fabio by a small fraction of a second.[2] [4]
Two years later, Stolk was selected to the Dutch swimming roster at his senior Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro, competing only in the men's 4×200 m freestyle relay.[5] He swam through the third quarter of the race with a split of 1:47.59 to deliver the Dutch foursome of Dion Dreesens, youngster Maarten Brzoskowski, and anchor Sebastiaan Verschuren a seventh-place time in 7:09.10, holding off the Belgians from the end of the final field by more than two seconds.[6] [7]