Bert van der Helm
Dutch table tennis player
Bert van der Helm (born 1948 in Zoeterwoude) is a former Dutch table tennis player and coach.
Career change
Player change
Van der Helm competed 189 times for the Dutch national team, competing at five European Championships and five World Championships.[1]
Van der Helm became 25 times national champion.[1][2]
- 12 times individual champion (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979 1980)
- 8 times men’s doubles with Gerard Bakker Sr (1966 and 1970), with Nico van Slobbe (1972, 1974 en 1978), with Anton-Will van Zoelen (1977), with Han Gootzen (1980) and with René Hijne (1982).
- 6 times mixed doubles including with his wife Ellen Kort (1966, 1967 and 1969), with Aukje Wynia (1970), with Mieke Arntz (1977) and with Ine Willems (1980)
Coach change
Van der Helm became table tennis coach. During the 1980s he was head coach of the men’s national team and have been criticized by players.[3] In 1994 he refused to become head coach of the Dutch national team.[4]
Other websites change
References change
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Bert van der Helm: 'Eigen mensen opleiden en meer binding!'". 2007 European Veterans Championships (in Dutch). 2007. Retrieved 16 June 2022.
- ↑ Nederlandse kampioenen NTTB, 2012
- ↑ "Tafeltennis". De Telegraaf (in Dutch). 17 May 1984. Retrieved 16 June 2022 – via Delpher.
- ↑ "Bert van der Helm bedankt". Algemeen Dagblad (in Dutch). 20 December 1994. Retrieved 16 June 2022 – via Delpher.