Nina Hoekman | |
Occupation: | Dutch draughts player and coach |
Birth Name: | Nina Georgijevna Jankovskaja |
Birth Date: | 1964 8, df=yes |
Birth Place: | Kiev, Ukrainian SSR, Soviet Union |
Death Place: | Zutphen, Netherlands |
Spouse: | Henk Hoekman (?-2014, her death) |
Nina Hoekman (8 August 1964 – 26 June 2014) was a Ukrainian-Dutch draughts player and coach.[1] At the 2012 World Mind Sports Games she received a silver medal.[2] [3]
Born Nina Georgijivna Jankovska in Kyiv, Hoekman moved to the Netherlands in 1995, and later married Dutch draughts player Henk Hoekman.[4] 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.[5]
She died of breast cancer in Zutphen, aged 49.[3]