Maaike Smit
Appearance
Full name | Maaike Smit |
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Country (sports) | Netherlands |
Born | Emmeloord, the Netherlands | 7 August 1966
Turned pro | 1991 |
Retired | 2012 |
Plays | Right Handed |
Official website | www.maaikesmit.nl |
Singles | |
Highest ranking | 1 (08/04/1997) |
Paralympic Games | Gold Medal (1996) |
Doubles | |
Highest ranking | 1 (02/10/2000) |
Paralympic Games | Gold Medal (2000, 2004) |
Medal record | |
Last updated on: 27 June 2013. |
Maaike Smit (7 August 1966, in Emmeloord) is a former Dutch Wheelchair tennis and Wheelchair basketball player.[1]
Smit started at the age of 20 with tennis. Smiths played at the US Open and Australian Open. She won the Florida Open International Wheelchair Tennis Championship 4 times.
In 1996 Smit won a gold medal in the singles wheelchair event at the 1996 Summer Paralympics in Atlanta. In the doubles she won a gold medal at the 2000 Summer Paralympics in Sydney and the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens.[2][3]
She was sponsored by "Invacare" (Produces Wheelchairs and other equipment for disabled people).
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References
Categories:
- 1966 births
- Living people
- Dutch female tennis players
- Wheelchair tennis players
- People from Emmeloord
- Sportspeople from Noordoostpolder
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic wheelchair tennis players of the Netherlands
- Dutch women's wheelchair basketball players
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair basketball players at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Wheelchair tennis players at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2000 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 1988 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Paralympics
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair tennis
- Paralympic medalists in wheelchair basketball