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Joke van Beusekom (born 23 June 1952 in Wassenaar, South Holland) is a retired female
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Joke van Beusekom (born 23 June 1952 in Wassenaar, South Holland) is a retired female badminton
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player from the Netherlands
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Career
Nationally, she was the most successful Dutch female player, winning a record 25 Dutch titles and playing, between 1967 and 1983, 67 times for the Dutch team. Internationally she was most successful in women's doubles, usually partnered with Marjan Luesken (later "Ridder"), winning at the (first) European Youth Championships in 1969, theDenmark Open
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in 1972 and 1975, the Irish International
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in 1975 (where she also won the singles title), and the Dutch Open Dutch Open may refer to:
*Dutch Open (tennis), an ATP tennis tournament from 1957 to 2008
*Dutch Open (golf), an annual golf tournament on the European Tour
*Dutch Open (badminton)
*Dutch Open (darts)
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in 1977. Van Beusekom and Luesken further earned bronze at the 1968, 1974, and 1978 European Championships
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, and silver at the (first) World Championships
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in 1977 in Malmö
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References
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* * 1952 births Living people Dutch female badminton players People from Wassenaar Badminton players at the 1972 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from South Holland 20th-century Dutch sportswomen Olympic badminton players for the Netherlands {{Netherlands-badminton-bio-stub