Minke Smeets

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Minke Smeets

Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney Team competition
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2006 Madrid Team competition
Silver medal – second place 1998 Utrecht Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2002 Perth Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2010 Rosario Team competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1999 Cologne Team competition
Gold medal – first place 2005 Dublin Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2007 Manchester Team competition
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 2000 Amstelveen Team competition
Gold medal – first place 2004 Rosario Team competition
Gold medal – first place 2007 Quilmes Team competition
Silver medal – second place 1999 Brisbane Team competition
Silver medal – second place 2001 Amstelveen Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 1997 Berlin Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2002 Macau Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Sydney Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2006 Amstelveen Team competition
Bronze medal – third place 2008 M'gladbach Team competition

Minke Smeets (née Smabers; born 22 March 1979 in The Hague, South 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, her boyfriend, the Dutch baseball team's catcher, Tjerk Smeets, proposed, and Minke accepted.[1] Her older sister Hanneke was also a Dutch international.

Notes

  1. ^ Aanzoek tijdens sluitingsceremonie


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