- Minke Smeets
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Medal record
Minke SmeetsWomen's field hockey Competitor for the Netherlands
Olympic Games Gold 2008 Beijing Team competition Silver 2004 Athens Team competition Bronze 2000 Sydney Team competition World Cup Gold 2006 Madrid Team competition Silver 1998 Utrecht Team competition Silver 2002 Perth Team competition European Championship Gold 1999 Cologne Team competition Gold 2005 Dublin Team competition Silver 2007 Manchester Team competition Champions Trophy Gold 2000 Amstelveen Team competition Gold 2004 Rosario Team competition Gold 2007 Quilmes Team competition Silver 1999 Brisbane Team competition Silver 2001 Amstelveen Team competition Bronze 1997 Berlin Team competition Bronze 2002 Macau Team competition Bronze 2003 Sydney Team competition Bronze 2006 Amstelveen Team competition Bronze 2008 M'gladbach Team competition Minke Smeets (born March 22, 1979 in Den Haag, Zuid-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.
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Categories:- 1979 births
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- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics
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- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- People from The Hague
- Female field hockey players
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