Bettine Vriesekoop
Template:Short description Template:Use dmy dates Script error: No such module "infobox".Template:Wikidata imageScript error: No such module "Check for unknown parameters".Script error: No such module "Check for clobbered parameters". Hubertina Petronella Maria "Bettine" Vriesekoop (born 13 August 1961) is a former table tennis player from the Netherlands. She was European champion in 1982 and 1992 individually and in 1982 in mixed doubles. She competed at the 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympics in singles and women doubles with the best achievement of seventh place in both events in 1988.[1]
Vriesekoop started playing table tennis in 1972, and between 1977 and 2002 played at top level in Europe. She won the European Championship twice and was a Dutch Champion fourteen times in the singles and sixteen times in the doubles. Until 1989 she worked with coach Gerard Bakker,[1][2] and then worked with Jan Vlieg.
Biography
Vriesekoop was the youngest of nine siblings in a farmers family. Her father died of cancer when she was ten years old.[2][3] In 1995 she appeared on the cover of Playboy Europe, and the issue contained an unprecedented 12-page interview with her. The money she received from Playboy helped her solve financial problems.[4] She retired from competition in 1997,[5] and in 1999 gave birth to a son, but her husband died shortly before that. While training in China she became interested in the culture and then studied Chinese language and philosophy in Leiden. Between 2006 and 2009 she worked in Beijing as a freelance correspondent for several Dutch newspapers including NRC Handelsblad.[4] She was selected as the "Dutch Table Tennis Player of the Century" in 2000 and as the Dutch Sportsman of the year in 1981 and 1985.[1]
Career highlights
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- Summer Olympic Games
- 1988, Seoul, women's singles, 7th
- 1988, Seoul, women's doubles, 7th
- 1992, Barcelona, women's singles, last 16
- 1992, Barcelona, women's doubles, quarter final
- 1996, Atlanta, women's singles, 1st round
- 1996, Atlanta, women's doubles, 1st round
- World Championships
- 1979, Pyongyang, women's singles, last 16
- 1979, Pyongyang, women's doubles, last 16
- 1979, Pyongyang, mixed doubles, last 16
- 1981, Novi Sad, women's singles, last 16
- 1983, Tokyo, women's singles, last 16
- 1983, Tokyo, women's doubles, last 16
- 1983, Tokyo, mixed doubles, quarter final
- 1983, Tokyo, team competition, 8th
- 1985, Gothenburg, women's singles, last 16
- 1985, Gothenburg, women's doubles, last 16
- 1985, Gothenburg, team competition, 4th
- 1987, New Delhi, team competition, 4th
- 1995, Tianjin, women's doubles, last 16
- World Doubles Cup:
- 1992, Las Vegas, women's singles, quarter final
- World Team Cup:
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- Pro Tour Grand Finals
- 1996, Tianjin, women's singles, last 16
- Pro Tour Meetings
- 1996, Kettering, women's singles, quarter final
- 1996, Kitaku-Shu, women's singles, quarter final
- 1996, Kitaku-Shu, women's doubles, quarter final
- 1998, Beirut, women's doubles, quarter final
- European Championships
- 1980, Bern, women's singles, semi final
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- 1982, Budapest, mixed doubles, winner Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1984, Moscow, women's singles, quarter final
- 1984, Moscow, women's doubles, semi final
- 1984, Moscow, mixed doubles, semi final
- 1986, Prague, women's singles, quarter final
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- 1988, Paris, mixed doubles, runner-up Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1990, Gothenburg, women's doubles, quarter final
- 1992, Stuttgart, women's singles, winner Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1992, Stuttgart, women's doubles, semi final
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- 1996, Bratislava, women's doubles, runner-up Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1998, Eindhoven, women's singles, quarter final
- European Youth Championships
- 1977, Vichy, women's singles, winner Script error: No such module "sort". (juniors)
- 1978, Barcelona, women's singles, semi final (juniors)
- 1979, Rome, women's singles, winner Script error: No such module "sort". (juniors)
- European Top-12 Championships
- 1978, Prague, 2nd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1979, Kristianstad, 8th
- 1980, Munich, 2nd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1981, Miskolc, 2nd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1982, Nantes, 1st Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1983, Cleveland, 3rd, Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1984, Bratislava, 2nd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1985, Barcelona, 1st Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1986, Södertälje, 5th
- 1987, Basel, 4th
- 1988, Ljubljana, 2nd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1991, Den Bosch, 3rd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1992, Vienna, 9th
- 1993, Copenhagen, 5th
- 1994, Arezzo, 7th
- 1995, Dijon, 5th
- 1996, Charleroi, 3rd Script error: No such module "sort".
- 1997, Eindhoven, 5th
- 1999, Split, 11th
Books
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- Bettine Vriesekoop (2021). Het China gevoel van Pearl S. Buck, Brandt, Uitgeverij, ISBN 978 94 93095 44 1
References
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- ↑ a b c Bettine Vriesekoop Template:Webarchive. sports-reference.com
- ↑ a b Jaap Bloembergen (1 February 1997) Het meisje van de lange lijdensweg. retro.nrc.nl
- ↑ Nieuwe Leidse Courant, 13 Jan. 1972
- ↑ a b Bettine Vriesekoop. bettinevriesekoop.nl
- ↑ Canupnet Template:Webarchive. hal-pc.org
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