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| caption = De Vlas (right) with her coach Veenstra in 1964
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| birth_place = [[Ameland]], Netherlands
| birth_place = [[Ameland]], [[Reichskommissariat Niederlande|German-occupied Netherlands]]
| death_date = October 2022 (aged 80)
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Revision as of 19:08, 11 October 2022

Meike de Vlas
De Vlas (right) with her coach Veenstra in 1964
Personal information
Born(1942-09-06)6 September 1942
Ameland, German-occupied Netherlands
DiedOctober 2022 (aged 80)
SpouseHadriaan van Nes
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
European Rowing Championships
Silver medal – second place 1964 Amsterdam Single sculls

Meike de Vlas (6 September 1942 – October 2022) was a Dutch rower who won a silver medal in the single sculls at the European Championships in 1964.[1] Her husband Hadriaan van Nes and daughter Eeke van Nes (born 1969) are Olympic medalists in rowing.[2][3]

De Vlas was born in Ameland on 6 September 1942.[4] She died in October 2022, at the age of 80.[5]

References

  1. ^ Rudern – Europameisterschaften (Damen – Einer). sport-komplett.de
  2. ^ De vrouwen van 1963 Meike de Vlas werd in Vrouwbuurstermolen van het ijs gehaald. geschiedenis24.nl. 16 January 2008
  3. ^ Eeke van Nes. sports-reference.com
  4. ^ Famke op het ijs, autobiographical chapter in En toen was er sport / druk 1: 80 verhalen uit de geschiedenis by J. van Vooren
  5. ^ "Meike de Vlas is overleden, zij won het eerste zilver voor Nederland". NLroei (in Dutch). 9 October 2022. Retrieved 11 October 2022.