Alida Geertruida "Lida" van der Anker-Doedens (28 July 1922 – 1 April 2014) was a Dutch

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who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. Competing in two

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, she won a silver medal in the K-1 500 m event at

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. She was born in

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and died at 91 years in

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References

Alida van der Anker-Doedens' profile at Sports Reference.com

External links

* 1922 births 2014 deaths Dutch female canoeists Canoeists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Canoeists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Olympic canoeists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in canoeing Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands People from Aa en Hunze Sportspeople from Drenthe 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub