Jasper Aerents

Who is Jasper Aerents?

Jasper Aerents is a Belgian swimmer, who specialized in sprint freestyle events. He won two bronze medals, as a member of the Belgian swimming team, in the 4×50 m freestyle relay at the 2011 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Szczecin, Poland, and at the 2012 European Short Course Swimming Championships in Chartres, France. He also captured a silver medal in the 50 m freestyle at the 2010 European Junior Swimming Championships in Helsinki, Finland by a quarter of a second behind Ukraine's Andriy Hovorov, in a personal best of 22.79. Aerents is a member of Regal Swimming Club in Belgium, and is coached and trained by Rik Valcke.

Aerents qualified for two swimming events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, by clearing a FINA B-standard entry time of 22.42 from the Nancy Long Course Invitational in Nancy, France. He also teamed up with Dieter Dekoninck, Emmanuel Vanluchene, and Pieter Timmers in the 4×100 m freestyle relay. Swimming the second leg, Aerents recorded a split of 48.34, but the Belgian team rounded out the finale to last place in 3:14.40. In the 50 m freestyle, Aerents topped the fifth heat by 0.21 of a second ahead of China's Yang Shi in 22.43, just a 0.01-second deficit from his entry time and personal best. Aerents failed to advance into the semifinals, as he placed twenty-second out of 58 swimmers in the preliminaries.