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Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Dutch-Australian swimmer (born 1925)

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Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher

Dutch swimmer (1925–2014)

Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics. After having claimed the bronze medal in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in London (1948), she won the silver medal four years later in Helsinki, Finland, in the same…
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January 8

Day of the year

January 8 is the eighth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 357 days remain until the end of the year.
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