Nina Hoekman (8 August 1964 – 26 June 2014) was a Ukrainian-Dutch
draughts
Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...
player and coach. At the
2012 World Mind Sports Games she received a silver medal.
Career
Born Nina Georgijevna Jankovskaja in
Kiev, Hoekman moved to the Netherlands in 1995, and later married Dutch draughts player Henk Hoekman. She became Dutch draughts champion 11 times, winning her last title in March 2014 when she was in a wheelchair and not able to move the pieces herself because of her illness.
Ernstig zieke Hoekman verovert elfde damtitel Profile
Algemeen Dagblad ; accessed 17 February 2015.
Death
She died of breast cancer in Zutphen
Zutphen () is a city and municipality located in the province of Gelderland, Netherlands. It lies some 30 km northeast of Arnhem, on the eastern bank of the river Ijssel at the point where it is joined by the Berkel. First mentioned in th ...
, aged 49.
References
1964 births
2014 deaths
Sportspeople from Kyiv
Deaths from cancer in the Netherlands
Deaths from breast cancer
Ukrainian draughts players
Dutch draughts players
Players of international draughts
Ukrainian emigrants to the Netherlands
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