Mirjam Kloppenburg

Mirjam Kloppenburg

Mirjam Kloppenburg-Hooman (born January 4, 1966 in Lichtenvoorde ) was one of the best Dutch table tennis players in the late 1980s .

Mirjam Kloppenburg was trained by her father Hans Kloppenburg until 1987. Then she moved to the Comtest-Scylla club with their coach Frits Kantebeen. For a long time she was in the shadow of Bettine Vriesekoop , only after her break from playing at the end of the 1980s did she become the leading Dutch table tennis player. From 1989 she appeared under the name Mirjam Hooman .

successes

From 1987 Kloppenburg won 14 titles at national championships, four times in singles (1987,1988,1990,1993), six times in doubles (1984,1985,1993,1996,1997,2004) and four times in mixed (1984,1987,1990, 2004). Between 1993 and 1996 Kloppenburg took part in seven world championships and six European championships . At the 1985 and 1987 World Cups , she finished fourth with the Dutch team. In 1992 the team won silver at the European Championship. In total, she played 214 international matches for the Netherlands.

In 1991 she won the European ranking tournament Europe TOP-12 , in 1994 she was third. In 1988, 1992 and 1996 she qualified for the Olympic Games.

Activities in Germany

After the end of her international career, Mirjam Kloppenburg-Hooman played for several German clubs in the 1st and 2nd Bundesliga : in 1992 she signed TuS Glane , in 1996 DJK TuS Holsterhausen , and in 1997 TuS Holtriem. From 1998 to 2000 she was with DJK SF Rheydt, then with interruptions until 2007 with DJK TuS Holsterhausen. From 2007 she has been working at DJK VfL Willich .

Private

Since 1989 Mirjam Kloppenburg has been married to Jozef Hooman, with whom she has two children.

Results from the ITTF database

Association	event	year	place	country	singles	Double	Mixed	team
NED	European Championship	1996	Bratislava	SVK	Quarter finals
NED	European Championship	1992	Stuttgart	GER	Semifinals	Semifinals		2
NED	European Championship	1990	Gothenburg	SWE	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
NED	European Championship	1988	Paris	FRA	last 16
NED	European Championship	1986	Prague	TCH	last 16
NED	European Championship	1984	Moscow	URS	last 16
NED	EURO TOP12	1997	Eindhoven	NED	11
NED	EURO TOP12	1994	Arezzo	ITA	3
NED	EURO TOP12	1993	Copenhagen	THE	9
NED	EURO TOP12	1992	Vienna	AUT	7th
NED	EURO TOP12	1991	Hertogenbosch	NED	1
NED	EURO TOP12	1990	Hanover	FRG	4th
NED	EURO TOP12	1989	Charleroi	BEL	11
NED	EURO TOP12	1988	Ljubljana	YUG	7th
NED	EURO TOP12	1986	Sodertalje	SWE	10
NED	Olympic games	1996	Atlanta	United States	immediately excluded	immediately excluded
NED	Olympic games	1992	Barcelona	ESP	immediately excluded	Quarter finals
NED	Olympic games	1988	Seoul	COR	immediately excluded	7th
NED	Pro tour	1997	Kettering	CLOSELY	Quarter finals	Quarter finals
NED	World Championship	1995	Tianjin	CHN	last 64	last 16	last 128	11
NED	World Championship	1993	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	last 64	last 64	10
NED	World Championship	1991	Chiba City	JPN	last 64	Scratched	Scratched	18th
NED	World Championship	1989	Dortmund	FRG	last 32	last 64	last 16	11
NED	World Championship	1987	New Delhi	IND	last 64	no participants	no participants	4th
NED	World Championship	1985	Gothenburg	SWE	last 64	Agony	last 32	4th
NED	World Championship	1983	Tokyo	JPN	last 128	last 64	last 32	8th
NED	World Doubles Cup	1992	Las Vegas	United States		Quarter finals
NED	WTC World Team Cup	1994	Nimes	FRA				3

swell

• Gijsbert Spierenburg: With new self-confidence in the European top class: Mirjam Kloppenburg , magazine DTS , 1990/1 pp. 38–40
• Dutch

Individual evidence

1. ↑ DTS magazine , 1999/5 p. 36
2. ↑ DTS magazine , 1992/6 p. 13
3. ↑ DTS magazine , 1996/6 p. 29
4. ↑ DTS magazine , 1997/6 p. 23
5. ^ ITTF statistics (accessed on September 8, 2011)