Maria Johanna "Ma" Braun (

Delfshaven Delfshaven () is a borough of Rotterdam, Netherlands, on the right bank of river Nieuwe Maas. It was a separate municipality until 1886. The town of Delfshaven grew around the port of the city of Delft. Delft itself was not located on a major ri ...

, 28 December 1881 –

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , ; ; ) is the second-largest List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city in the Netherlands after the national capital of Amsterdam. It is in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, part of the North S ...

, 9 October 1956) was a Dutch swimming coach. She led the Dutch women's swimming team at the 1928–1952 Olympics and at the European championships in between, with her trainees winning medals at each of these competitions. Owing to her efforts, later supported by another prominent Dutch coach Jan Stender, the Netherlands was one of the leading women's swimming nations of the 1930s–1960s. Throughout her career Braun tried new strokes and training methods, and traveled throughout Europe to learn from competitors. In 1967 she was inducted into the

International Swimming Hall of Fame The International Swimming Hall of Fame and Museum (ISHOF) is a history museum and hall of fame, located at One Hall of Fame Drive, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, United States, operated by private interests and serving as the central point for the stu ...

. Her trainees included Marie Baron, Willy den Ouden,

Rie Mastenbroek Hendrika Wilhelmina "Rie" Mastenbroek (26 February 1919 – 6 November 2003) was a Dutch swimmer and a triple Olympic champion. Biography Born in Rotterdam, she started swimming under the coaching of "Ma" Braun, who had coached her daugh ...

, her daughter

Marie Braun Maria "Marie" Johanna Philipsen-Braun (22 June 1911 – 23 June 1982), also known as Zus Braun, was a Dutch swimmer. She competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam and in 1932 Summer Olympics, 1932 in Los Angeles, winning a gold medal in t ...

, Puck Oversloot, Ria van der Horst, Irma Schuhmacher and Jopie van Alphen. Her daughter won the 100 m backstroke at the

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, and Mastenbroek remains the only woman to win both the 100 and 400 meter Olympic freestyle, which she had done in 1936.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Braun, Ma 1881 births 1956 deaths Sportspeople from Rotterdam Dutch swimming coaches

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