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Dutch wheelchair tennis player (born 1964)
Monique Kalkman-Van den Bosch
(born 28 November 1964) is a Dutch former professional
wheelchair tennis
and table tennis player.
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Monique competed at the Paralympics in
1984
,
1988
,
1992
and
1996
. In 2017, she was inducted into the
International Tennis Hall of Fame
.
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Biography
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Monique Van den Bosch was diagnosed with cancer due to
paraplegia
when she was just 14 years old. Initially she took the sport of table tennis during her childhood age before becoming a professional wheelchair tennis player. At the age of 20, she made her Paralympic debut during the
1984 Summer Paralympics
and competed in the table tennis events.
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Career
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Monique Kalkman clinched a gold and a bronze medal in the women's table tennis competitions as a part of the 1984 Summer Paralympics. She then competed at the
1988 Summer Paralympics
as a wheelchair tennis player and claimed a gold medal in the women's singles though the event was a demonstration sport at the 1988 Summer Paralympics. Monique Van den Bosch continued her medal hunt at the Summer Paralympics as she claimed gold medals in the women's singles and women's doubles partnering with
Chantal Vandierendonck
at the
1992 Summer Paralympics
.
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She also won the
ITF World Titles
in 1992, 1993, 1994 and 1995.
Post career
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In 1997, she was advised by the doctors to play golf as she had paraplegia disease. She retired from playing wheelchair tennis championships in 1997 and started to play golf during her leisure times. She also founded the Going4Golf, a golf foundation which aims to promote the golf sport for people with disabilities.
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