Gerdie Keen

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Gerdie Keen (born September 29, 1969 in Wageningen ) is a Dutch table tennis player . She was second in the individual at the European Championships in 1994.

National

At the Dutch championships Gerdie Keen won thirteen titles, namely in singles in 1989, 1996, 1997 and 1998, in doubles in 1989 (with Brenda Hunterslag), 1990, 1991, 1992 (with Emily Noor ), 1993, 1996, 1997 (with Mirjam Kloppenburg ) and 1998 (with Melisa Muller) as well as mixed in 1988 with Geert Verhaegh. With the club De Treffers '70 she was in 1994/95 and 1995/96 Dutch team champions.

International

From 1985 to 1999, Keen was nominated eight times for world championships . In 1985 and 1987 she came in fourth with the Dutch women's team. She took part in the European Championships five times , where she had her greatest success in 1994 with second place in the individual. In the final she was defeated by the Swede Marie Svensson . She reached the quarter-finals four times, namely in 1990 and 1992 in singles, in 1992 in mixed with Trinko Keen and in 1998 in doubles with Adriana Simion-Nastase (Romania). In 1996 , Keen qualified to participate in the Summer Olympics . Here she was eliminated in the first round in singles and doubles.

In the ITTF world rankings she was listed in February 1999 at number 56.

Germany

In 1997 Gerdie Keen moved from the De Treffers '70 club to the German Bundesliga for TuS Glane and the following year to Bayer Uerdingen , with whose women's team she reached the ETTU Cup final in 1998/99 .

Private

In 2000 Gerdie Keen ended her active career and then worked for the Dutch Table Tennis Association.

She is the older sister of the table tennis player Trinko Keen and has another sister named Dieke .

Results from the ITTF database

Association event year place country singles Double Mixed team
NED  European Championship  1998  Eindhoven  NED   last 16  Quarter finals     
NED  European Championship  1994  Birmingham  CLOSELY   silver       
NED  European Championship  1992  Stuttgart  GER   Quarter finals    Quarter finals   
NED  European Championship  1990  Gothenburg  SWE   Quarter finals       
NED  European Championship  1988  Paris  FRA   last 16       
NED  Olympic games  1996  Atlanta  United States   immediately excluded  immediately excluded     
NED  Pro tour  1999  Karlskrona  SWE   last 32  Rd 1     
NED  Pro tour  1999  Lievin  FRA   Rd 1       
NED  Pro tour  1999  Linz / Wels  AUT   last 32  last 16     
NED  Pro tour  1999  Bremen  GER   last 32       
NED  Pro tour  1999  Rio de Janeiro  BRA   last 16  last 16     
NED  Pro tour  1999  Hopton-on-Sea  CLOSELY   last 32  last 16     
NED  Pro tour  1999  Doha  QAT   Rd 1       
NED  Pro tour  1998  Sundsvall  SWE   Rd 1  Rd 1     
NED  Pro tour  1998  Beirut  LIB   last 16  Quarter finals     
NED  Pro tour  1998  Houston  United States   Quarter finals  Quarter finals     
NED  Pro tour  1998  Zagreb  HRV   last 32  Rd 1     
NED  Pro tour  1997  Linz  AUT   last 16       
NED  Pro tour  1997  Kettering  CLOSELY   Quarter finals  Quarter finals     
NED  World Championship  1999  Eindhoven  NED   last 128  last 64  no participants   
NED  World Championship  1997  Manchester  CLOSELY   last 64  no participants  last 64  23 
NED  World Championship  1995  Tianjin  CHN   last 64  last 64  last 16  11 
NED  World Championship  1993  Gothenburg  SWE   last 128  last 64  last 128  10 
NED  World Championship  1991  Chiba City  JPN   last 128  last 16  last 64  18th 
NED  World Championship  1989  Dortmund  FRG   last 64  Agony  last 128  11 
NED  World Championship  1987  New Delhi  IND   last 64  last 32  Scratched  4th 
NED  World Championship  1985  Gothenburg  SWE   last 128  Agony  Scratched  4th 
NED  WTC World Team Cup  1994  Nimes  FRA         3

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Results Mixed 1992 on ettu.org ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2016)
  2. ↑ Results ladies doubles 1998 on ettu.org ( Memento from October 17, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on January 20, 2016)
  3. ↑ World Ranking List No. 99/02, February 1999 ( Memento from December 17, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on February 3, 2016)
  4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/8, pages 14–15
  5. ↑ DTS magazine , 1998/6 page 8
  6. ↑ DTS magazine , 2000/8 page 41
  7. ↑ DTS magazine , 1993/4 page 30
  8. ↑ Gerdie Keen Results from the ITTF database on ittf.com (accessed on September 9, 2011)
personal data
SURNAME Keen, Gerdie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch table tennis player
DATE OF BIRTH 29th September 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Wageningen