Jenneke van Driel

Dutch Paralympic swimmer and table tennis player

Jenneke van Driel is a Dutch Para table tennis player and Para swimmer from Rijswijk. At the 1968 Summer Paralympics she won a bronze medal in swimming. She also medalled at Stoke Mandeville Games.[1]

Career change

At the 1965 Stoke Mandeville Games she won in swimming the silver medal in the 50 metres breaststroke.[2] After competing at the 1968 Stoke Mandeville Games she competed at the 1968 Summer Paralympics. She won the bronze medal in the 25 m Breaststroke class 2 incomplete event.[3]

Van Driel was a member of the national team; trained and coached by Joop Westbroek.[4]

In 1965 she finished second at the national table tennis championships.[5][6] The next year she became national champion at the 1966 national championships.[7][8] She didn’t became champion in 1967, where the title was won by Loes Schenk. In 1968 she became again national champion and won also the national title in the doubles event with Loes Schenk.

References change

  1. "IPC Historical Results Database". web.archive.org. 2016-03-04. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04. Retrieved 2022-03-03.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. "Leidse Courant | 27 juli 1965 | pagina 9". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  3. "Leidsch Dagblad | 16 november 1968 | pagina 11". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  4. "Leidsch Dagblad | 29 april 1968 | pagina 3". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  5. "Leidsch Dagblad | 12 april 1965 | pagina 11". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  6. "Leidse Courant | 12 april 1965 | pagina 15". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  7. "Leidsch Dagblad | 7 maart 1966 | pagina 13". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.
  8. "Nieuwe Leidsche Courant | 7 maart 1966 | pagina 10". Historische Kranten, Erfgoed Leiden en Omstreken (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-03.