Roshendra Vrolijk

Roshendra Vrolijk

Personal information
Full name	Roshendra Julienne Mercedes Vrolijk
National team	Aruba
Born	(1984-11-03) 3 November 1984 Oranjestad, Aruba
Height	1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Freestyle

Roshendra Vrolijk (born November 3, 1984) is an Aruban former swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. She is one of Aruba's first Olympic swimmers, alongside Davy Bisslik, and also a two-time Olympian (2000 and 2004).

Vrolijk made her Olympic debut, as Aruba's youngest athlete (aged 15), at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where she competed in the women's 50 m freestyle. Swimming in heat three, she edged out Armenia's Yuliana Mikheeva to pick up a sixth seed and sixty-second overall by 0.49 of a second in 29.31.

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Vrolijk was elected by the Aruban Olympic Committee to become the nation's first ever female flag bearer in the opening ceremony. She qualified again for the 50 m freestyle by receiving a Universality place from FINA, in an entry time of 28.13. Swimming in heat four, she raced to a third spot by three hundredths of a second (0.03) behind Moldova's Maria Tregubova in 28.43. Vrolijk failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed forty-ninth overall out of 75 swimmers on the last day of preliminaries.