Emmy Henriëtte "Riëtte" Fledderus (born 18 October 1977) is a retired
volleyball
Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...
player from the
Netherlands
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, who represented her native country at the
1996 Summer Olympics in
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the seat of Fulton County, the most populous county in Georgia, but its territory falls in both Fulton and DeKalb counties. With a population of 498,71 ...
, finishing in fifth place.
Fledderus was a member of the
Netherlands national team that won the gold medal at the
1995 European Championship by defeating
Croatia
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3–0 in the final. She was also part of the team during the 2007 Boris Yeltsin Cup in
Yekaterinburg
Yekaterinburg ( ; rus, Екатеринбург, p=jɪkətʲɪrʲɪnˈburk), alternatively romanized as Ekaterinburg and formerly known as Sverdlovsk ( rus, Свердло́вск, , svʲɪrˈdlofsk, 1924–1991), is a city and the administrat ...
where the Dutch won the silver medal after losing the final to
China 3–1.
References
Dutch Olympic Committee
1977 births
Dutch women's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball players for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Drenthe
People from Meppel
People from Westerveld
Living people
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