Minke Smeets

Minke Smeets

Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing the Netherlands
Olympic Games
	2008 Beijing	Team competition
	2004 Athens	Team competition
	2000 Sydney	Team competition
World Cup
	2006 Madrid	Team competition
	1998 Utrecht	Team competition
	2002 Perth	Team competition
	2010 Rosario	Team competition
European Championship
	1999 Cologne	Team competition
	2005 Dublin	Team competition
	2007 Manchester	Team competition
Champions Trophy
	2000 Amstelveen	Team competition
	2004 Rosario	Team competition
	2007 Quilmes	Team competition
	1999 Brisbane	Team competition
	2001 Amstelveen	Team competition
	1997 Berlin	Team competition
	2002 Macau	Team competition
	2003 Sydney	Team competition
	2006 Amstelveen	Team competition
	2008 M'gladbach	Team 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. Her older sister Hanneke was also a Dutch international.

External links

• Minke Smeets at the International Hockey Federation
• Minke Smeets at Olympics.com
• Minke Smeets at Olympedia
• Dutch Hockey Federation