Erna Brinkman

Erna Brinkman
Erna Brinkman and her son 2010
portrait
Date of birth	March 25, 1972
place of birth	Sneek, Netherlands
size	1.84 m
position	External attack / adoption
societies
–1992 1992–1993 1993–1995 1996–1997 1997–1998 1998–1999 1999–2000 2000–2001 2001–2002 2002–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006 2006–2007	VC Sneek USC Münster 1. VC Schwerte Itoyokada Tokyo Rio de Janeiro VC Volley Napoli Monte Schiavo Jesi Viva Volley Tortoreto Volley 2002 Forlì RC Cannes Cerdisa Reggio Emilia Fornarina Civitanova Marche Sassuolo Volley Leningradka Saint Petersburg
National team
333 times	A national team
successes
1991 1992 1993 1995 1996 1998 2002 2003 2003 2005	Vice-European champion Olympic sixth German runner-up European champion Olympic fifth Brazilian champion Italian A2 cup winner Champions League winner French champion Italian A2 cup winner
As of January 31, 2016

Erna Augusta Brinkman (born March 25, 1972 in Sneek , Friesland ) is a former Dutch volleyball player .

Career

Brinkman started her volleyball career at home VC Sneek. With the Dutch national team , she was runner-up in Italy in 1991 and finished sixth at the Olympic Games in Barcelona a year later . Then she moved to the German Bundesliga for USC Münster , with which she became German runner-up. She then played for two years with league rivals 1. VC Schwerte . With the national team she won the European Championship in 1995 in her own country and in 1996 she took part in the Olympic Games in Atlanta for the second time, in which she finished fifth. In the 1996/97 season, the outside attacker played in Japan at Itoyokada Tokyo and a year later in Brazil at Rio de Janeiro VC , with which she won the national championship. Then Brinkman moved to Italy, where she played at Volley Napoli , Monte Schiavo Jesi , Viva Volley Tortoreto and Volley 2002 Forlì . With the RC Cannes she won the French championship in 2003. She then returned to Italy and played for Cerdisa Reggio Emilia , Fornarina Civitanova Marche and Sassuolo volley. In 2006/07 Brinkman ended her career in Russia with Leningradka Saint Petersburg .

Web links

• Erna Brinkman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Ranking lists: 1993 ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 2.0 MB) - 1994 ( Memento from March 23, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (PDF file; 4.0 MB) - 1995 ( PDF file; 111 kB)
• Profile at legavolleyfemminile.it (Italian)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ John Volkers: Brinkman has become an Italian. de Volkskrant , 23 September 1999, accessed 31 January 2016 (Dutch). 
2. ↑ Erna Brinkman stops with volleybal. de Gelderlander , August 18, 2007, accessed January 31, 2016 (Dutch).