Minke Smeets
| ||
Medal record | ||
---|---|---|
Women's field hockey | ||
Representing the Netherlands | ||
Olympic Games | ||
2008 Beijing | Team competition | |
2004 Athens | Team competition | |
2000 Sydney | Team competition | |
World Cup | ||
2006 Madrid | Team competition | |
1998 Utrecht | Team competition | |
2002 Perth | Team competition | |
2010 Rosario | Team competition | |
European Championship | ||
1999 Cologne | Team competition | |
2005 Dublin | Team competition | |
2007 Manchester | Team competition | |
Champions Trophy | ||
2000 Amstelveen | Team competition | |
2004 Rosario | Team competition | |
2007 Quilmes | Team competition | |
1999 Brisbane | Team competition | |
2001 Amstelveen | Team competition | |
1997 Berlin | Team competition | |
2002 Macau | Team competition | |
2003 Sydney | Team competition | |
2006 Amstelveen | Team competition | |
2008 M'gladbach | Team competition |
Minke Smeets (née Smabers; born March 22, 1979 in The Hague, South Holland) is a field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands. Her current team is Laren.
She was part of the team that won the 2007 Champions Trophy. During the Champions Trophy she became the all-time record holder in caps for the national team, wearing the orange jersey for the 235th time in her career in the final, breaking Mijntje Donners' record. She won an Olympic gold medal with the Dutch team by beating China in the final of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.
During the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing her boyfriend, Dutch' baseball teams catcher, Tjerk Smeets proposed, and Minke accepted.[1] Her older sister Hanneke was also a Dutch international.
Notes
External links
This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the 11/4/2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.