Bettine Vriesekoop
Bettine Vriesekoop ( born August 13, 1961 in Hazerswoude - Rijndijk ) is a Dutch table tennis player. She twice won the European Championship.
Career
With the table tennis sport began in 1972 in the club Avanti Hazerswoude TTC. Between 1977 and 2002 she established herself in the world rankings. 1977 and 1979 they won the European Championship of youth in the individual. In the Dutch Championships, she won fourteen times in singles and sixteen times in doubles. Nine Ten times she participated in Table Tennis European Championships in part, she was twice European champion in singles, 1982 in Budapest before Jill Hammersley from England and 1992 in Stuttgart Lisa Lomas (England). The double final she had to retire in 1982 because of a heel injury. 1982 and 1985 she won the European ranking tournament Europe TOP - 12th In 1982, she also won the Mixed with Andrzej Grubba (Poland ), 1996 in Bratislava, she took along with Emily Noor in a double second place behind the German ladies Nicole Struse / Elke Schall.
In the 1980s she worked with the permission of the Dutch Table Tennis Association NTTB with the men's team in their club Avanti Hazerswoude, where he was successful in the two major leagues. 1986 won the women's team to the European Nancy Evans Cup, the 1987 European Cup.
Since 1973, she has been trained by Gerard Bakker, 1989 by Jan Vlieg. In 1989 she announced her retirement from international competitive sports to. Then the sponsor Dextro finished back its cooperation with the club Avanti Hazerswoude why this withdrew the women's team from the current ETTU Cup for financial reasons. Vriesekoop accepted an offer of the Italian Association of Ragusa. However, one and a half years later, she continued her international career. National she went to Tempo Team Amsterdam for the club. In 1993, she joined the German Bundesliga club TSG Dülmen, they left again in 1994 to The Netherlands. With Henk ten Hoor DTK they won the European Cup in 2002.
In professional circles Vriesekoops behavior at the table tennis table was often rated as unfair.
Awards
1981 and 1985, they chose the Dutch sports journalists Athlete of the Year in the Netherlands.
Biography
In November 2003, her biography Over Winnenberg, over leven was (such as climbing, survival ) published (ISBN 9049025013 ). Author: TV journalist Alje Kamphuis. Here they known to have deliberately doped in Eindhoven at the European Championships in 1998.
Private
Bettine Vriesekoop has eight older siblings, five sisters and three brothers. She studied Chinese Studies and Philosophy. In July 1995 Vriesekoop posed as a permissive model in the Dutch edition of Playboy, where she still gave an interview about her views on life. In October 1999, she was - after her partner Hans van Wissen had died in April of the same year - a son.
Since June 2006 she has worked as a freelancer for the newspaper NRC Handelsblad in China.
Results from the ITTF database