Bettine Vriesekoop

Bettine Vriesekoop 1986

Bettine Vriesekoop 1992

Bettine Vriesekoop (born August 13, 1961 in Hazerswoude-Rijndijk ) is a former Dutch table tennis player and trainer. She won the European Championship twice .

Career

She started playing table tennis in 1972 in the Avanti Hazerswoude TTC association. Between 1977 and 2002 she established herself among the world's best. In 1977 and 1979 she won the European Youth Championship in singles. At the Dutch championships she won fourteen times in singles and sixteen times in doubles. She took part in European table tennis championships nineteen times, twice she was European champion in singles, 1982 in Budapest before Jill Hammersley from England and 1992 in Stuttgart before Lisa Lomas (England). She had to give up the double final in 1982 because of a heel injury. In 1982 and 1985 she won the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 . In 1982 she also won mixed with Andrzej Grubba (Poland), in 1996 in Bratislava she took second place in doubles with Emily Noor behind the German women Nicole Struse / Elke Schall .

In the 1980s she worked with the approval of the Dutch table tennis association NTTB in the men's team of her club Avanti Hazerswoude and was successful here in the two top divisions. In 1986 the women's team won the European Nancy Evans Cup , and in 1987 the European Cup .

Since 1973 she has been trained by Gerard Bakker, from 1989 by Jan Vlieg. In 1989 she announced her retirement from international competitive sport. Thereupon the sponsor Dextro ended its cooperation with the club Avanti Hazerswoude, which is why the club withdrew the women's team from the current ETTU Cup for financial reasons. Vriesekoop accepted an offer from the Italian club Ragusa. A year and a half later, however, she continued her international career. She competed nationally for the Tempo Team Amsterdam club. In 1993 she moved to the German Bundesliga club TSG Dülmen , which she left for the Netherlands in 1994. She won the European Cup in 2002 with Henk ten Hoor DTK .

In professional circles, Vriesekoop's behavior at the table tennis table was often rated as unfair.

At the beginning of 2019 the Dutch table tennis association hired Bettine Vriesekoop as national trainer, she looks after the students.

Awards

In 1981 and 1985, the Dutch sports journalists voted them Sportswoman of the Year for the Netherlands.

biography

In November 2003, her biography Overwinnen, overleven (Overcome, Survive) was published ( ISBN 9049025013 ). Author: TV journalist Alje Kamphuis. Here she confessed that she had consciously doped at the 1998 European Championship in Eindhoven.

Private

Bettine Vriesekoop has eight older siblings, five sisters and three brothers. She studied sinology and philosophy. In July 1995 Vriesekoop posed as a revealing model in the Dutch edition of Playboy , where she gave an interview about her views on life. In October 1999 she became the mother of a son after her partner Hans van Wissen had died in April of the same year.

Since June 2006 she has worked as a freelancer for the newspaper NRC Handelsblad in China.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
NED	European Championship	1998	Eindhoven	NED	Quarter finals
NED	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK		silver
NED	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER	gold	Semifinals		2
NED	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE		Quarter finals
NED	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	last 16		silver
NED	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	Quarter finals	silver
NED	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	Quarter finals	Semifinals	Semifinals
NED	European Championship	1982	Budapest	HUN	gold	silver	gold
NED	European Championship	1980	Bern	SUI	Semifinals
NED	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1979	Roma	ITA	gold
NED	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1978	Barcelona	ESP	Semifinals
NED	European Youth Championship (Juniors)	1977	Vichy	FRA	gold
NED	EURO TOP12	1999	Split	HRV	11
NED	EURO TOP12	1997	Eindhoven	NED	5
NED	EURO TOP12	1996	Charleroi	BEL	3
NED	EURO TOP12	1995	Dijon	FRA	5
NED	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	7th
NED	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	5
NED	EURO TOP12	1992	Vienna	AUT	9
NED	EURO TOP12	1991	Hertogenbosch	NED	3
NED	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	2
NED	EURO TOP12	1987	Basel	SUI	4th
NED	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	5
NED	EURO TOP12	1985	Barcelona	ESP	1
NED	EURO TOP12	1984	Bratislava	TCH	2
NED	EURO TOP12	1983	Cleveland	CLOSELY	3
NED	EURO TOP12	1982	Nantes	FRA	1
NED	EURO TOP12	1981	Miskolc	HUN	2
NED	EURO TOP12	1980	Munich	FRG	2
NED	EURO TOP12	1979	Kristianstad	SWE	8th
NED	EURO TOP12	1978	Prague	TCH	2
NED	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
NED	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	last 16	Quarter finals
NED	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
NED	Pro tour	1998	Sundsvall	SWE	last 16
NED	Pro tour	1998	Beirut	LIB	last 16	Quarter finals
NED	Pro tour	1996	Kitaku-Shu	JPN	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
NED	Pro tour	1996	Kettering	CLOSELY	Quarter finals
NED	Pro Tour Grand Finals	1996	Tian Jin	CHN	last 16
NED	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 32	last 16	no participants	11
NED	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 64	last 64	10
NED	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 32	Scratched	last 32	18th
NED	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 64	last 32	Scratched	4th
NED	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 16	last 16	last 32	4th
NED	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 16	last 16	Quarter finals	8th
NED	World Championship	1981	Novi Sad	YUG	last 16	last 32	last 64	17th
NED	World Championship	1979	Pyongyang	PRK	last 16	last 16	last 16	14th
NED	World Championship	1977	Birmingham	CLOSELY	last 64	last 32	last 64	19th
NED	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		Quarter finals
NED	WTC World Team Cup	1994	Nimes	FRA				3

literature

• I would never be satisfied with second place , magazine DTS , 1982/10 issue Süd-West page 11
• Ted van der Meer: After more than 15 years, Bettine Vriesekoop will soon stop playing "nice games" , DTS magazine , 1989/2 pages 51–53
• Bas den Beejen: Never say never in top sport , DTS magazine , 1991/1 page 47
• Rahul Nelson: Bettine Vriesekoop: back on top after 10 years - lonely in success , DTS magazine , 1992/5 page 14
• Rahul Nelson: Bettine Vriesekoop and fairness - a long story - “ That's what referees are for” , DTS magazine , 1992/5 page 14

Web links

• Biography (Dutch) (accessed February 27, 2016)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1989/2 page 50
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/5, page 18
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1994/8 page 16
4. ↑ Journal DTS , 1992/5, pages 14 + 46; Answer from Bettine Vriesekoop; DTS magazine , 1992/6 page 34
5. ↑ tischtennis magazine , 2019/2 page 6
6. ↑ DTS magazine , 1995/7 page 46
7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/5 page 36 + 1999/11 page 7
8. ↑ ITTF statistics ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on September 16, 2011)