Martina Maria Anna Antonia "Tineke" Bartels-de Vries (born 6 February 1951 in
Eindhoven) is an
equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
* Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes i ...
from the
Netherlands
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, who won the silver medal in the Team Dressage Event 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. She did so alongside
Annemarie Sanders,
Ellen Bontje
Petronella Theodora Maria "Ellen" Bontje (born 11 June 1958 in Hilversum, North Holland) is an equestrian from The Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the Team Dressage Event at the 2000 Olympic Games in Sydney, Australia. She did so alo ...
, and
Anky van Grunsven. In the Individual Competition she finished in fifteenth position.
Biography
Four years later Bartels repeated that feat, this time with Van Grunsven and the couple
Gonnelien and
Sven Rothenberger. She competed in four
Summer Olympics for her native country, starting in 1984. Her daughter
Imke competed at the
2004 Summer Olympics in
Athens, Greece.
Bartels was heavily injured on 7 November 2006 after she fell off her horse during a training. She fell with her head against a tree and will need a long time to recover. It is unsure whether she can continue her career.
External links
Dutch Olympic Committee
Dutch dressage riders
1951 births
Living people
Olympic equestrians of the Netherlands
Dutch female equestrians
Equestrians at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 1988 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Equestrians at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Eindhoven
Olympic medalists in equestrian
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
20th-century Dutch women
20th-century Dutch people
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