Mieke Strong

Mieke Strong ( Haarlem , January 5 1946 ) is a Dutch former athlete and politician . As an athlete, she was specialized in hurdles and the sprint, she was twenty timesDutch champion in these disciplines and participated in the Olympics . If Labour -politica she was from 1994 to 1998 in the Lower House .



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*1 Biography  ==[Biography  edit ] == ===[Early  years Edit ]  === Strong grew up in a family believe PvdA and did to netball and basketball . At seventeen she was discovered as a runner at a beach race. She was persuaded to go on athletics in athletics Atmodes. At her first competition she settled right at the jump a junior club record of 5.21 meters and ran the 100 m in 12.7 s.
 * 1.1 Early years
 * 1.2 Olympic Games
 * 1.3 No European Championships in Greece
 * 1.4 After her sport career
 * 2 Dutch championships
 * 3 Records
 * 3.1 Personal bests
 * 3.2 Dutch records
 * 4 Awards

In 1966 Strong first walked the 100 meters in 12 seconds. In 1967 Wil Westphal her trainer, which would continue this decade. A year later, she won her first national title in the 100m hurdles . ===Olympics [  edit ] === Mieke Strong represented the Netherlands at the Olympic Games in Mexico City in 1968. In the 200m, she was eliminated with 24.0 in the series. On the 4 x 100 m relay won  Wilma van den Berg, Mieke Strong, Hilda Hennipman-Cruiming and Corrie Bakker their series in 43.4 s, equaling the world record that the American team even had walked before. The next day, the American women with only 42.8 world record holders. Netherlands repeated the feat of the series and was again 43.4 (converted in later years into an electronic equivalent 43.44), the same time that the Russian team with nose length difference bronze conquered.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After this time only after 43 years, in 2011 during the world championships in Daegu, was matched by a Dutch relay team, was finally in 2012, the best performance ever by Dutch Janice Babel, Kadene Vassell, Eva Lubbers and Jamile Samuel reduced to 42.90, which came to an end after almost 44 years of the existence of this oldest national record.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Fell sharply in Mexico outside her sport performance, because they caused a small riot because they arbitrarily her skirt to the prescribed uniform Olympic drastically inkortte and thus appeared at the opening ceremony. ===No European Championships in Greece <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In 1969 Mieke Strong first made her political statement. She refused to participate in the European Championships in Athens because of the colonels in Greece. Much to the anger of KNAU -officials. A year later they again just took part in the European indoor championships in Vienna, where she managed to qualify for the final of the 60m hurdles. In this by East German Karin Balzer won competition was strong fifth in 8.6 s. During the outdoor season she won that year in Turin during the Universiade bronze medal in the pentathlon . With 4828 points they finished behind Russian Tatyana Kondrashova (gold) and the Bulgarian Nedyalka Angelova (silver). ===After her athletic career <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">After her athletic career was strong in the sociological education engaged randgroepjongeren, young asylum seekers and the mentally disabled . After the cabinet formation in August 1994, she came for the Labour Party in the House. She was one of the newcomers on the initiative of the then party chairman Felix Rottenberg came in the Chamber for the PvdA to give a new look. She was given the portfolio "sport for the disabled, secondary vocational education, defense personnel, working conditions and aftercare" assigned.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Once, in 1997, also in an interview with the news magazine Fri Netherlands, criticism had been leveled at the party, she was put on an ineligible place. The criticism was not well: she was not reelected indeed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">In October 2008 held some Mexico-goers of '68 reunion and appeared in the Dutch newspaper Algemeen Dagblad, consequently, a retrospective on the participation in the Olympic Games in Mexico. ==Dutch championships <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ==Records <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == ===Personal records <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ===Dutch records <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] === ==Awards <span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[  edit <span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] ==
 * Outdoor
 * Indoor
 * Outdoor
 * Indoor
 * KNAU athlete of the year - 1973
 * Union Cross of Honour in gold KNAU - 1978