Minke Smeets

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

  1. ↑ Aanzoek tijdens sluitingsceremonie


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