Carina Benninga
Carina Marguerite Benninga (born August 18, 1962 in Leiden ) is a former Dutch hockey player and Olympic champion.
Benninga played for the Old Dominion University hockey team in Virginia in 1980 . She later moved to Amsterdam and made her debut at the 1983 World Cup in the national team , with which she immediately became world champion. The following year, the Dutch women won both the European Championship and the Olympic Games in Los Angeles.
The midfielder missed the 1986 home World Cup because of a broken collarbone. In 1987 Benninga graduated from the University of Amsterdam with a law degree and won the FIH Champions Trophy with the Dutch national team . At the Olympic Games in 1988 , she finished third with her team.
In 1989 she was the flag bearer of the Dutch team at the Maccabiade ; the Dutch women won the title just as they did a year later at the 1990 World Cup . Benninga was meanwhile captain of the national team and in 1992 was the first woman to carry the flag of the Netherlands at an Olympic opening ceremony. The rather disappointing sixth place at the Olympic Games in Barcelona was the end of her active career; With 158 internationals she was a record national player for several years.
As an assistant coach, Carina Benninga looked after the US national team from 1993 to 1995, and in 1997 she led the Dutch team to a Maccabi victory as a coach. Later she was a coach in the Second Dutch Hockey League several times. Carina Benninga was knighted in 1994 and has been a member of the International Jewish Sports Hall of Fame since 2000 .
Web links
- Carina Benninga in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Portrait on jewishshirtsandgifts sports (English)
- Portrait on jewsinsports (English)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Benninga, Carina |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Benninga, Carina Marguerite |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 18, 1962 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Suffer |