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{{short description|Dutch volleyball player (born 1976)}}
{{Infobox sportsperson
|birth_date={{birth date and age|1976|11|14|df=y}}
|birth_place=[[Weerselo]], [[Overijssel]], Netherlands
|medaltemplates={{Medal|Sport|Women's [[volleyball]]}}
{{Medal|Country|the {{NED}}}}
{{Medal|Competition|[[Women's European Volleyball Championship|European Championships]]}}
{{Medal|Gold|[[1995 Women's European Volleyball Championship|1995 Arnhem]]|Team competition}}
}}

'''Elles Maria Leferink''' (born 14 November 1976 in [[Weerselo]], [[Overijssel]]) is a [[volleyball]] player from the [[Netherlands]], who represented her native country at the [[1996 Summer Olympics]] in [[Atlanta, Georgia]], finishing in fifth place.

Leferink was a leading youngster in the [[Netherlands women's national volleyball team|Netherlands national team]] that won the gold medal at the [[1995 Women's European Volleyball Championship|1995 European Championship]] by defeating [[Croatia women's national volleyball team|Croatia]] 3–0 in the final.

Among other awards she was elected "best player of Europe" aged 19 in 1995 and "best server" at the World Championship 1998 and the European Championship in 2003.

She retired in 2007, becoming a mother.

==Individual awards==
* [[1995 CEV "European Volleyball Player of the Year"]]
* [[1998 FIVB Women's World Championship#Individual awards|1998 World Championship "Best Server"]]
* [[2003 Women's European Volleyball Championship#Individual awards|2003 European Championship "Best Server"]]

==References==
* {{in lang|nl}} [https://web.archive.org/web/20070609180222/http://www.sport.nl/overige/deelnemersfinder/ Dutch Olympic Committee]
{{Netherlands Squad 1995 Women's Volleyball European Championship}}
{{Netherlands Women's Volleyball Squad 1996 Summer Olympics}}

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[[Category:1976 births]]
[[Category:Dutch women's volleyball players]]
[[Category:Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics]]
[[Category:Olympic volleyball players for the Netherlands]]
[[Category:Volleyball players from Overijssel]]
[[Category:People from Weerselo]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:Dutch expatriate volleyball players in Germany]]
[[Category:Dutch expatriate volleyball players]]
[[Category:20th-century Dutch sportswomen]]


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