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{{short description|Dutch water polo player (born 1982)}}
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| name           = Alette Sijbring
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| birth_date     = {{birth-date and age|20 March 1982}}
| birth_place    = [[Zierikzee]], Netherlands
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{{MedalSport|Women's [[water polo]]}}
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{{MedalCompetition|[[Olympic Games]]}}
{{MedalGold|[[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]]|[[Water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|Team competition]]}}
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'''Alette Sijbring''' (born 20 March 1982) is a [[water polo]] player of the [[Netherlands]] who represents the [[Netherlands women's national water polo team|Dutch national team]] in international competitions.<ref name="bio">[http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/218029.shtml Athlete biography: Alette Sijbring] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080902024100/http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/BIO/Athlete/9/218029.shtml |date=2008-09-02 }}, beijing2008.cn, ret: 16 August 2008.</ref>

Sijbring was part of the team that finished fifth at the [[2001 Women's European Water Polo Championship]] in [[Budapest]] and 9th at the [[2001 FINA Women's World Water Polo Championship]] in [[Fukuoka, Fukuoka|Fukuoka]]. After that she was also selected for the team that became 10th at the [[2005 World Aquatics Championships]] in [[Montreal]]. At the [[2006 FINA Women's Water Polo World League]] in [[Cosenza]] and the [[2006 Women's European Water Polo Championship]] in [[Belgrade]] they finished in fifth place, followed by the 9th spot at the [[2007 World Aquatics Championships]] in [[Melbourne]]. The Dutch team finished in fifth place at the [[2008 Women's European Water Polo Championship]] in [[Málaga]] and they qualified for the [[2008 Summer Olympics]] in [[Beijing]].<ref name="bio"/> There they ended up winning the gold medal on 21 August, beating the [[United States women's national water polo team|United States]] 9-8 in the [[Water polo at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's tournament|final]].

==See also==
* [[Netherlands women's Olympic water polo team records and statistics]]
* [[List of Olympic champions in women's water polo]]
* [[List of Olympic medalists in water polo (women)]]
* [[List of World Aquatics Championships medalists in water polo]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* {{Sports links}}

{{Netherlands women's water polo squad 2008 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1982 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Sportspeople from Zierikzee]]
[[Category:Dutch female water polo players]]
[[Category:Water polo centre backs]]
[[Category:Water polo players at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands in water polo]]
[[Category:21st-century Dutch sportswomen]]


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