Rebekka Kadijk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Rebekka Kadijk

Dutch volleyball and beach volleyball player

Date of Birth: 16-Jun-1979

Place of Birth: Werkendam, North Brabant, Netherlands

Profession: volleyball player, beach volleyball player

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Rebekka Kadijk

  • Rebekka de Kogel-Kadijk (born 16 June 1979) is a Dutch professional beach volleyball and indoor volleyball player born in Werkendam. In indoor volleyball Kadijk started her career in 1992 at Foranto Werkendam.
  • Other teams she played for were Sliedrecht Sport, Cornix Schelle (Belgium) and AMVJ.
  • She was also part of the Dutch youth team in 1995.
  • She quit indoor volleyball in 2001 to fully concentrate on beach volleyball. She started her international beach volleyball career in 1997, playing tournaments around the world with her sister Debora.
  • Between 1997 and 2000 they were Dutch national champions.
  • They won the silver medal at the European Championships in Rhodes 1998 followed by a bronze medal in 2000.
  • They also participated at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where they lost both of their matches, eliminated in the second preliminary round by Lina and Petia Yanchulova, also sisters.
  • Following the Olympic tournament Debora quit volleyball.
  • Rebekka continued to play and found a new partner in Marrit Leenstra.
  • In 2001, 2002 and 2004 another three Dutch national titles were won.
  • In Basel 2002 Kadijk/Leenstra reached the final of the European Championships.
  • They lost this final, earning a silver medal.
  • Their main achievement came in 2003 when they won the World Cup meeting in Lianyungang (China).
  • They qualified for the 2004 Summer Olympics, but met little success there.
  • After the Olympics they split up.
  • Kadijk's next partner was Merel Mooren and, like Rebekka's earlier teams, Kadijk/Mooren were nearly unbeatable in their own country.
  • In 2005 and 2006 they became Dutch national champions.
  • In both 2005 (Moscow) and 2006 (Scheveningen) they reached the final of the European Championships.
  • They lost on both occasions, earning two more silver medals.
  • In 2007 they won the final of the German Masters in Hamburg, their first European Tour Tournament win.

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