Lander Hendrickx is a young and talented Belgian swimmer born in 1994 that recently tried to qualify for the 1500m freestyle for European Championships but fell short of a few seconds.
Hendrickx comes from Leuven (Belgium) and started swimming at the age of 8. When he turned 15, he decided to start doing morning sessions because he really wanted to become a great swimmer. It was hard for him to combine it with school but he kept pushing through. He’s now in college and studies commercial engineering at Ghent University. He decided to be part of the program called TWC (Training Centrum Wachtebeke) along with 8 other Belgian swimmers to focus on swimming. His coaches are Wauter Derycke and Rik Valcke.
Swimming World sat down with him and asked him a few questions about his training and how he felt after missing the European cut for the 1500m freestyle. He mentioned how well his training was going and that he feels like he is getting stronger everyday but he needs to make sure he gets enough rest in between sessions. Because if he doesn’t his body doesn’t respond well at all. For example he swam at Dutch nationals in Tilburg a few weeks ago and had to scratch two races in the afternoon because he felt too weak. Hendrickx says it may be due to the Dutch food and the amount of races he did the first two days but he isn’t sure.
With the encouragement of his coaching staff, he continued to work hard following that weekend. He spent a week at the Lanzarote Olympic center (Spain) with a bunch of members from the Belgian Olympic Team – swimmers, track and field athletes, triathletes etc. He said it was a great time for team bonding with other athletes from the Belgian Olympic team.
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