Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher (24 February 1925 – 8 January 2014)[1] was a freestyle swimmer from the Netherlands who won two medals at the Summer Olympics.

[2] She also won two gold and two silver medals at the 1947 and 1950 European Championships.

[3] In 1950, while touring Australia with Geertje Wielema, Schuhmacher met Johan Heijting, a Dutch animal husbandry specialist who had recently immigrated to Australia.

They married on 22 March 1952,[4] and one week after the 1952 Olympics, Heijting-Schuhmacher moved to her husband's breeding farm near Brisbane.

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