| Intro | Swimmer |
| Is |
Athlete Swimmer |
| From |
South Africa |
| Type |
Sports |
| Gender | female |
| Birth | 2 December 1989 |
| Age: | 30 years |
Karin Prinsloo (born 2 December 1989) is a South African swimmer. She is a member of the 2012 South Africa Olympic team, and competed in two individual events at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London.
Personal life
Prinsloo was born in Marble Hall, Limpopo, in 1989 and she attended Ben Viljoen High School in Groblersdal, where she graduated in 2007.
Then she attended University of Pretoria in Pretoria, South Africa, where she is coached by Igor Omeltchenko.
Swimming career
All Africa Games 2011
Prinsloo narrowly missed out on the gold medal in the woman’s 100 m backstroke, where she was up against African record holder Kirsty Coventry, of Zimbabwe. Coventry touched first in 1:00.86 with Prinsloo less than a second behind in 1:01.46 and Amel Melih, of Algeria, third in 1:07.27.
Prinsloo struck gold later as part of the women’s 4 × 100 m relay team of Natasha de Vos, Roxanne Tammadge and Suzaan van Biljon.
2012 Summer Olympics
At the 2012 Summer Olympics she finished 20th overall in the heats in the Women’s 200 metre freestyle with a time of 1:59.24, and failed to reach the semifinals.