Maaike Smit

Maaike Smit
Full name Maaike Smit
Country (sports)  Netherlands
Born (1966-08-07) 7 August 1966
Emmeloord, the Netherlands
Turned pro 1991
Retired 2012
Plays Right Handed
Official website www.maaikesmit.nl
Singles
Highest ranking 1 (08/04/1997)
Paralympic Games Gold Medal (1996)
Doubles
Highest ranking 1 (02/10/2000)
Paralympic Games Gold Medal (2000, 2004)
Last updated on: 27 June 2013.

Maaike Smit (7 August 1966, in Emmeloord) is a former Dutch Wheelchair tennis and Wheelchair basketball player.[1]

Smit started at the age of 20 with tennis. Smiths played at the US Open and Australian Open. She won the Florida Open International Wheelchair Tennis Championship 4 times.

In 1996 Smit won a gold medal in the singles wheelchair event at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta. In the doubles she won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens.[2][3]

She was sponsored by "Invacare" (Produces Wheelchairs and other equipment for disabled people).

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