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Full Name Nina Georgijevna Jankovskaja Occupation Dutch draughts player and coach Spouse(s) Henk Hoekman (19??-2014; her death) Died June 26, 2014, Zutphen, Netherlands | ||
Nina Hoekman (8 August 1964 – 26 June 2014) was a Ukrainian-Dutch draughts player and coach. At the 2012 World Mind Sports Games she received a silver medal.
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Career
Born Nina Georgijevna Jankovskaja in Kiev, Hoekman moved to the Netherlands in 1995, and later married Dutch draughts player Henk Hoekman. She became Dutch draughts champion 11 times, winning her last title in March 2014 when she was in a wheelchair and not able to move the pieces herself because of her illness.
Death
She died of breast cancer in Zutphen, aged 49.
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