Joyce van Baaren

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Joyce van Baaren Taekwondo
Personal information
Nationality: NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
Society: TKD Oude Luttikhuis
Birthday: November 7, 1984
Place of birth: Almelo
Medals

Joyce van Baaren (born November 7, 1984 in Almelo ) is a Dutch Taekwondoin . It starts in the weight class up to 62 kilograms.

At the Junior World Championship in Killarney in 2000 , van Baaren contested her first international title fights in the class up to 55 kilograms. A year later she was able to record her first major success in Pamplona with the Junior European Championship in the same class. In the adult sector, she made her breakthrough at the 2004 European Championships in Lillehammer . In the class up to 63 kilograms, she made it to the semi-finals and won the bronze medal. The following year, van Baaren was able to reach the second round at their first World Cup in Madrid and the quarter-finals at the European Championships in Riga . In Izmir she won bronze at the Universiade . Also in 2007 she was able to achieve a good result with the quarter-finals at the World Cup in Beijing . At the Universiade in Bangkok , she repeated winning the bronze medal.

In 2008 van Baaren left the national team after disagreements with the new bond coach Soung Dae-sung. Since then, she has been training in her hometown at the TKD Oude Luttikhuis club , which was founded by her partner Thijs Oude Luttikhuis and his father Ben, who were formerly successful Taekwondoin and World Cup and European Championship medalists themselves. Van Baaren successfully sued for the nomination for the 2008 Olympic qualifying tournament after not being considered, but she missed qualifying for the 2008 Olympic Games . After she was not nominated by the Dutch Association for the 2009 World Cup in Copenhagen , she started there for the Netherlands Antilles , but dropped out early. Van Baaren found his way back to success after the dispute with the association was settled in 2011. At the World Cup in Gyeongju , she missed her first World Cup medal after a narrow quarter-final defeat against Karine Sergerie . At the European Championships in 2012 , she won her second European Championship medal with bronze in the class up to 62 kilograms, after she lost to Marlène Harnois in the semifinals .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ 'Ik weet hoe ik m'n sport moet bedrijven, ik durf m'n own koers te bepalen'. Retrieved June 18, 2012 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Baaren, Joyce van
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch Taekwondoin
DATE OF BIRTH November 7, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Almelo