Danielle Villars

Olympic athlete

1993 –

76

Who is Danielle Villars?

Danielle Villars is a Swiss swimmer, who specialized in freestyle and butterfly events. She has won multiple Swiss titles and currently holds four national records in both freestyle and butterfly. Villars is a resident athlete for the Limmat Sharks, and is coached and trained by Dirk Reinicke.

Villars made her international debut at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics in Singapore, where she rounded out the finale to eighth place in the 100 and 200 m freestyle.

At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Villars maintained her program by qualifying for two swimming events. She posted FINA B-standard entry times of 59.57 from the European Championships in Debrecen, Hungary, and 2:01.47 from the Olympic trials in Zurich. In the 100 m butterfly, Villars broke her own Swiss record of 59.42 to share a top seed in the second heat and a twenty-sixth-place tie with Spain's Judit Ignacio Sorribes on the first day of the Games. In the 200 m freestyle, Villars raced to second place on the first heat by 1.06 seconds behind Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang, outside her personal best of 2:03.55. Villars failed to advance into the semifinals, as she placed thirty-first overall in the preliminaries.

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Born
Mar 6, 1993
Zürich
Nationality
  • Switzerland
Profession
Education
  • Southern Methodist University
Lived in
  • Zürich

Submitted
on July 23, 2013

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