Mieke Jaapies

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Mieke Jaapies presents her Olympic silver medal (1972)

Maria "Mieke" Jaapies (born August 7, 1943 in Wormerveer ) is a former Dutch canoeist .

Mieke Jaapies competed in the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City in both a single kayak and a two-person kayak . Together with Tjeertje Bergers-Duif, she took sixth place in the two . In the singles final she came in eighth and last because the Hungarian Anna Pfeffer did not finish the race.

At the 1970 World Championships in Copenhagen , she finished second behind the Soviet canoeist Lyudmila Pinajewa but ahead of Petra Setzkorn from the GDR. The same distribution of the medals was found at the World Championships in Belgrade in 1971 . Of these three medal winners from 1970 and 1971, only Mieke Jaapies was represented at the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich . The Soviet canoeist Julija Rjabtschinskaja won ahead of Mieke Jaapies and Anna Pfeffer. An hour and a half after the single final, Mieke Jaapies and Maria van der Holst-Blijlevens took seventh place in the two- person kayak.

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SURNAME Jaapies, Mieke
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jaapies, Maria
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch canoeist
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1943
PLACE OF BIRTH Wormerveer