Mirjam Hooman-Kloppenburg

Mirjam Kloppenburg - Hooman ( born January 4, 1966 in Lichtenvoorde ) belonged to the late 1980s, to the best Dutch table tennis players.

Mirjam Kloppenburg was trained up in 1987 by her father, Hans Kloppenburg. Then she joined the club Comtest - Scylla with their coaches Frits edge termination. For a long time they stood in the shadow of Bettine Vriesekoop, after their break in the late 1980s she became a leading Dutch table tennis player. As of 1989, she performed under the name Mirjam Hooman.

Achievements

From 1987 Kloppenburg won 14 titles at the national championships, four times in a single ( 1987,1988,1990,1993 ), six times in duplicate ( 1984,1985,1993,1996,1997,2004 ) and four times in mixed ( 1984,1987,1990, 2004). Between 1993 and 1996, Kloppenburg participated in seven World Championships and six European Championships. In the 1985 and 1987 World Championships she finished with the Dutch team in fourth place. 1992 brought the team silver at the European Championships. Overall, they played 214 international matches for the Netherlands.

In 1991 she won the European ranking tournament Europe Top -12, 1994, she was third. 1988, 1992 and 1996, she qualified for the Olympic Games.

Activities in Germany

After the end of their international careers Mirjam Kloppenburg - Hooman played with several German clubs in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga: 1992, it undertook the TuS Glane, 1996 DJK TuS Holsterhausen, 1997 TuS Holtriem. From 1998 to 2000 she was at the DJK SF Reydt, then intermittently until 2007 DJK TuS Holsterhausen. From 2007 she is with DJK 1919 VfL Willich in use.

Private

Since 1989, Miriam Kloppenburg is married to Jozef Hooman, with whom she has two children.

Results from the ITTF database

Swell

• Gijsbert Spierenburg: With a new self-consciousness in the European top class: Mirjam Kloppenburg, magazine DTS, 1990/1 p.38 -40
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