| Kirsten Gleis | |||||
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| Nationality | Dutch | ||||
| Born | 22 May 1969 Enschede | ||||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||||
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| Number | 12 (national team) | ||||
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Kirsten Joke Hermine Gleis (born 22 May 1969) is a retired Dutch female volleyball player.
She played 241 matches with the Netherlands women's national volleyball team, including those at the 1992 Olympic Games, [1] [2] and the 1994 World Championships. [3] On club level she played with Martinus Amsterdam.
The Netherlands competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. 201 competitors, 117 men and 84 women, took part in 105 events in 20 sports.
Carina Marguerite Benninga is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Other highlights of her career include gold medals at the EuroHockey Nations Championship and Champions Trophy in 1987, as well as a gold at the 1983 Women's Hockey World Cup and the 1990 Women's Hockey World Cup. Next to her sports career, Carina Benninga studied law; in 1987 she got her Masters’degree.
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