Helina Jacomina (Jacqueline) Poelman (October 5, 1973) is a former

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sprinter. Poelman was born and raised in

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and trained at an athletics club in

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. Her first major international tournament were the 1991 European Junior Championships in

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, where she did not reach the final on the

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nor the

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. Only a year later at the World Junior Championships she won the

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on the 100 m, finishing second, while she became fourth on the 200 m. In the same year, she was part of the Dutch

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team during the

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, which was eliminated in the series. Poelman won the

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in the 200 m at the 1994 European Championships, held in

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. For a long time, this was her last international achievement. Only in 2002 Poelman worked on her comeback after a few years without hardly any competition, because she finished her study. At the

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however, she reached the seventh position on the 200 m. In 2003 Jacqueline Poelman was a member of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team that participated in the

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. Together with Joan van den Akker, Pascal van Assendelft and

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the team nominated itself for the

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, realising the twelfth time out of twenty teams in competition. It is true the final remained beyond reach, but the Dutch four set a season’s fastest time, scoring 43.96. During the Olympic Games in

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in 2004 she was again part of the same Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team. Unfortunately, they did not finish, because of a disqualification after a wrong baton change. A year later at the

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she won another bronze medal on the 200 m. On September 3, 2006 Poelman ran her last race at the Arena Games in

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Personal bests

Outdoor *

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– 11.27 (1994) *

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– 23.00 (2002) *

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– 52.84 (2001) Indoor *

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– 7.26 (1994) *

– 23.36 (1995)

Bibliography

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External links

Website about Jacqueline Poelman
{{DEFAULTSORT:Poelman, Jacqueline 1973 births Living people Dutch female sprinters Olympic athletes for the Netherlands Athletes (track and field) at the 1992 Summer Olympics Athletes (track and field) at the 2004 Summer Olympics World Athletics Championships athletes for the Netherlands People from Leek, Netherlands Olympic female sprinters Athletes from Groningen (province) 21st-century Dutch sportswomen 20th-century Dutch sportswomen