Marrit Leenstra (volleyball)
As of June 10, 2011
Marrit Leenstra ( born October 18, 1973 in Emmen ) is a former Dutch volleyball and beach volleyball player. In both disciplines, she participated in Olympic tournaments.
Career
Leenstra began her volleyball career in 1983 in the hall at OSV Pegasus Ter Apel. Then she played in Ommen and Martinus Amstelveen, before moving to Monte Schiavo Jesi Italy. Further stages of her club career were S.Donà, Florence and Ravenna. After four years in the youth team she was first appointed to the senior team in 1992, by which it reached the sixth place in Barcelona in 1992. In 1995, the Netherlands became European champion on home soil with Leenstra. In the Olympic tournament in Atlanta in 1996, the team finished fifth. Two years later Leenstra resigned from the national team.
In 2001 she moved finally to beach volleyball. With her partner Rebecca Kadijk they came at the World Championships in Klagenfurt on the 17th rank. A year later she was in Basel after a final defeat against the Italians Gattelli / Perrotta Vice - European Champion. At the national level Kadijk / Leenstra won the title twice. 2003 the duo succeeded in Lianyungang, the first overall victory in an open tournament and at the European Championships they missed in fourth barely a medal, while again was a 17th place at the World Championship. For these achievements Leenstra was awarded Amsterdam's Sportswoman of the Year. Athens 2004 she participated as a beach volleyball player at the Olympic tournament and finished with Kadijk Rank 19 At the end of the year parted Leenstra and Kadijk.
In the Shanghai Open 2005 Leenstra played for the first time with Sanne Keizer. Shortly after, she reached at the World Championships in Berlin again No. 17 The best results enter the new duo in Montreal ( fourth) and Bali ( fifth). After the World Cup 2007, when it reached only to the 37 rank, Keizer is looking for a new partner. Leenstra still went to some tournaments with Cintha Boersma, 2008 in Paris before she ended her athletic career after the Grand Slam.