Nel Wambach

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Nel Wambach
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Nel Wambach in 1960
Personal information
Born (1938-05-09) 9 May 1938 (age 86)
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Height1.58 m (5 ft 2 in)
Weight56 kg (123 lb)
Sport
Sport Artistic gymnastics
ClubDOS, Amsterdam

Neeltje "Nel" Wambach (born 9 May 1938) is a former artistic gymnast from the Netherlands. She competed at the 1960 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events with the best achievement of 14th place in the team allaround. [1]

She won a bronze allround medal at the national championships in 1959. [2]

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References

  1. Nel Wambach. sports-reference.com
  2. Dutch Champions, Women all Archived 10 August 2011 at the Wayback Machine . gymmedia.com