TOUSSAINT Kira

Date of Birth: 22 May 1994

Age: 27

Gender: Female

Place of birth: AMSTELVEEN

Birth Country:

Netherlands

Place of residence : AMSTERDAM

Residence Country:

Netherlands

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Swimming	Women's 100m Backstroke	7
	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay NED Netherlands	4
	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay NED Netherlands
	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay NED Netherlands	6

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Freestyle Relay Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke - Heat 5	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Semifinal 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 100m Backstroke Final	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 1	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Women's 4 x 100m Medley Relay - Heat 2	Finished
	Tokyo Aquatics Centre	Mixed 4 x 100m Medley Relay Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	100Back
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	H (1:01.17)

World Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2019	Gwangju, KOR	8th (27.85)	SF (1:00.13)	4th (3:35.32)	6th	H (4:01.42)	8th (DSQ)
2017	Budapest, HUN	H (28.30)	SF (1:00.76)	-	-	-	-

European Championships

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	4x100Free W	4x100Free X	4x100Medley W	4x100Medley X
2020	Budapest, HUN	1st (27.36)	4th (59.32)	2nd (3:34.29)	-	5th (3:57.41)	2nd (3:41.28)
2018	Glasgow, GBR	8th (28.80)	8th (1:00.14)	2nd (3:34.77)	2nd	5th (3:58.94)	4th (3:45.57)

Champions Swim Series overview - Three best ranks per season and event since 2019

Year	50Back	100Back	200Back
2020	1 x 2nd, 1 x 3rd	2 x 1st	1 x 3rd, 1 x 4th

Champions Swim Series - Ten best performances since 2019

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2020	100m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	59.64
1	2020	100m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	59.52
2	2020	Women's 50m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	28.07
3	2020	Women's 50m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	28.22
3	2020	200m Backstroke	Shenzhen, CHN	2:12.78
4	2020	200m Backstroke	Beijing, CHN	2:15.03

World Championships Short Course

Year	Location	50Back	100Back	200Back
2016	Windsor, ON, CAN	SF (26.52)	SF (57.73)	H (2:07.67)

Legend
Free - Freestyle, Back - Backstroke, Breast - Breaststroke, Fly - Butterfly, IndMed - Individual Medley, SF - Semifinal, H - Heats, DNS - Did Not Start, M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed, DSQ - Disqualified, [Relay athlete without time] - Did not swim in final

Occupation:

Biokinetics - University of Tennessee , Knoxville, TN, USA

Partner Jesse Koopman

Languages spoken:

HPC Amsterdam [Netherlands]

Mark Faber [national], NED

Sporting relatives:

Her mother Jolanda de Rover won a gold medal in the 200m backstroke and a bronze medal in the 100m backstroke at the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles. Her partner Jesse Koopmen has represented the Netherlands in water polo. (SportsDeskOnline, 18 Apr 2019; Facebook profile, 25 Mar 2019; utsports.com, 08 Jul 2016)

A shoulder injury in May 2016 meant that she missed the 2016 European Championships in London, England. (Facebook profile, 03 Jul 2016)

She and her sister Merel tried many sports when they were young. "My parents didn't want to force us into swimming, We tried out everything for fun. We both liked swimming the best, and we both stuck with swimming." (tnledger.com, 06 May 2016)

To qualify for a final at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (kiratoussaint.com, 15 Mar 2019)

Competing at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. (kiratoussaint.com, 15 Mar 2019)

Her mother. (lc.nl, 16 Jun 2020)

She was named the 2013/14 Coastal Collegiate Swimming Association Swimmer of the Year while competing for Florida Gulf Coast University in the United States of America. (utsports.com, 08 Jul 2016)

General Interest

General
TRANSFER TO TENNESSEE
She began her US college career at the Florida Gulf Coast University in 2013 and transferred to the University of Tennessee in July 2015. "I decided Florida Gulf Coast was not the best place for me to make my Olympic dream come true, so I decided to leave there. Somebody told me about Tennessee, and that's how I came on a recruiting trip here. I went to some other schools, but this felt the best and that's how I ended up here." (swimmingworldmagazine.com, 01 Jul 2016; tnledger.com, 06 May 2016)

Social Media

Legend

:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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