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Olympic medal record Women's athletics Competitor for the Netherlands
Gold 1948 London 4x100 metre relay Jeannette Josephina Maria ("Netty") Witziers-Timmer (July 22, 1923 – January 25, 2005 (aged 81)) was a Dutch athlete.
Born Jeannette Josephina Maria Timmer in Amsterdam her greatest success was when she won the gold medal in the 4 x 100 metres relay at the 1948 Summer Olympics, together with Xenia Stad-de Jong, Gerda van der Kade-Koudijs and Fanny Blankers-Koen.[1] Two years earlier, she had already won the same event at the 1946 European Championships.
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European Champions in Women's 4 x 100 m relay 1938: Germany (Kohl, Krauß, Albus, Kühnel) • 1946: Netherlands (van der Kade-Koudijs, Witziers-Timmer, Adema, Blankers-Koen) • 1950: Great Britain (Hay, Desforges, Hall, Foulds) • 1954: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Uliskina, Itkina, Turova) • 1958: Soviet Union (Krepkina, Kepp, Polyakova, Maslovskaya) • 1962: Poland (Ciepły, Sobotta, Szyroka, Piątkowska) • 1966: Poland (Bednarek, Straszynska, Kirszenstein, Kłobukowska) • 1969: East Germany (Höfer, Meissner, Podeswa, Vogt) • 1971: West Germany (Schittenhelm, Helten, Irrgang, Mickler) • 1974: East Germany (Maletzki, Stecher, Heinich, Eckert) • 1978: Soviet Union (Anisimova, Maslakova, Kondratyeva, Storoshkova) • 1982: East Germany (Walther, Eckert, Rieger, Göhr) • 1986: East Germany (Gladisch, Rieger, Brestrich-Auerswald, Göhr) • 1990: East Germany (Möller, Krabbe, Behrendt, Günther) • 1994: Germany (Paschke, Knoll, Zipp, Lichtenhagen) • 1998: France (Benth, Bangué, Félix, Arron) • 2002: France (Combe, Hurtis, Félix, Sidibé) • 2006: Russia (Gushchina, Rusakova, Khabarova, Grigoryeva) • 2010: Ukraine (Povh, Pohrebnyak, Ryemyen, Bryzhina)
Categories:- 1923 births
- 2005 deaths
- Dutch sprinters
- Olympic athletes of the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- People from Amsterdam
- Olympic medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Dutch athletics biography stubs
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