Irene Margreta Maria de Kok (born 29 August 1963 in
Eindhoven
Eindhoven () is a city and municipality in the Netherlands, located in the southern province of North Brabant of which it is its largest. With a population of 238,326 on 1 January 2022,[North Brabant
North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...]
) is a retired
judoka
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from the
Netherlands
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, who is a two-fold world-champion and represented Holland at the
1992 Summer Olympics
The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...
in
Barcelona, Spain
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There De Kok won the bronze medal in the women's half-heavyweight division (– 72 kg), alongside
Laetitia Meignan
Laetitia Meignan (born 25 June 1960 in Paris) is a retired judoka from France, who represented her native country at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain, where she won a bronze medal in the women's half-heavyweight division (72 kg ...
from France. She was named ''Dutch Sportswoman of the Year'' in 1987 after having claimed her second world title.
References
External links
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Dutch Olympic Committee
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1963 births
Living people
Dutch female judoka
Judoka at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic judoka of the Netherlands
Olympic medalists in judo
Sportspeople from Eindhoven
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Dutch women
21st-century Dutch women
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