Bettine Vriesekoop

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Bettine Vriesekoop (born August 13, 1961 in Hazerswoude, Zuid-Holland) is a former table tennis player from the Netherlands, who became European Champion in 1982 and 1992.

Vriesekoop started playing table tennis in 1972. From 1977 until 2002 she played at top-level. 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. After that she worked successfully with coach Jan Vlieg.

She studied Chinese and philosophy. Since june 2006 Vriesekoop works as a freelance correspondent for the Dutch daily quality-newspaper NRC Handelsblad in China.