Minke Smeets

Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place2008 BeijingTeam competition
Silver medal – second place2004 AthensTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place2000 SydneyTeam competition
World Cup
Gold medal – first place2006 MadridTeam competition
Silver medal – second place1998 Utrecht Team competition
Silver medal – second place2002 PerthTeam competition
Silver medal – second place2010 RosarioTeam competition
European Championship
Gold medal – first place1999 CologneTeam competition
Gold medal – first place2005 DublinTeam competition
Silver medal – second place2007 ManchesterTeam competition
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place2000 AmstelveenTeam competition
Gold medal – first place2004 RosarioTeam competition
Gold medal – first place2007 QuilmesTeam competition
Silver medal – second place1999 BrisbaneTeam competition
Silver medal – second place2001 AmstelveenTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place1997 BerlinTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place2002 MacauTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place2003 SydneyTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place2006 AmstelveenTeam competition
Bronze medal – third place2008 M'gladbachTeam competition

Minke Smeets (née Smabers; born 22 March 1979 in The Hague, South 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, her boyfriend, the Dutch baseball team's catcher, Tjerk Smeets, proposed, and Minke accepted.[1] Her older sister Hanneke was also a Dutch international.

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