Minke Smeets

Medal record
Minke Smeets
Women's field hockey
Competitor for the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Gold	2008 Beijing	Team competition
Silver	2004 Athens	Team competition
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team competition
World Cup
Gold	2006 Madrid	Team competition
Silver	1998 Utrecht	Team competition
Silver	2002 Perth	Team competition
European Championship
Gold	1999 Cologne	Team competition
Gold	2005 Dublin	Team competition
Silver	2007 Manchester	Team competition
Champions Trophy
Gold	2000 Amstelveen	Team competition
Gold	2004 Rosario	Team competition
Gold	2007 Quilmes	Team competition
Silver	1999 Brisbane	Team competition
Silver	2001 Amstelveen	Team competition
Bronze	1997 Berlin	Team competition
Bronze	2002 Macau	Team competition
Bronze	2003 Sydney	Team competition
Bronze	2006 Amstelveen	Team competition
Bronze	2008 M'gladbach	Team competition

Minke Smeets (born March 22, 1979 in Den Haag, Zuid-Holland) is a field hockey midfielder from the Netherlands. Her current team is Laren.

She was part of the team that won the 2007 Champions Trophy. During the Champions Trophy she became the all time record holder in caps for the national team, wearing the orange jersey for the 235th time in her career in the final, breaking Mijntje Donners' record. She won an Olympic gold medal with the Dutch team by beating China in the final of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

During the closing ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing her boyfriend, Dutch' baseball teams catcher, Tjerk Smeets proposed, and Minke accepted.^[1] Her older sister Hanneke was also a Dutch international.

Notes

1. ^ Aanzoek tijdens sluitingsceremonie

External links

• Dutch Hockey Federation

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Name	Smabers, Minke
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Date of birth	March 22, 1979
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