Emmy Henriëtte "Riëtte" Fledderus (born 18 October 1977) is a retired
volleyball
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player from the
Netherlands
, Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
, who represented her native country at the
1996 Summer Olympics
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in
Atlanta, Georgia
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, finishing in fifth place.
Fledderus was a member of the
Netherlands national team that won the gold medal at the
1995 European Championship by defeating
Croatia
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3–0 in the final. She was also part of the team during the 2007 Boris Yeltsin Cup in
Yekaterinburg
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where the Dutch won the silver medal after losing the final to
China
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3–1.
References
Dutch Olympic Committee
1977 births
Dutch women's volleyball players
Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic volleyball players for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Meppel
People from Westerveld
Living people
Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Spain
Dutch expatriate volleyball players in Italy
Expatriate volleyball players in Spain
20th-century Dutch sportswomen
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