Bibian Mentel
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| Full name | Bibian Mentel-Spee | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 27 September 1972 Utrecht, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Died | 29 March 2021 (aged 48) Loosdrecht, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years active | 1996–2018 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Website | bibianmentel.com | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | alpine skiing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | SB-LL | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Snowboard cross, Banked slalom | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Edwin Spee (husband) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Bibian Mentel-Spee (27 September 1972 – 29 March 2021) was a Dutch three-time Winter Paralympics gold-medalist. Mentel won the Paralympic gold medal in the snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018 Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the banked slalom in 2018.
On 5 March 2021, it was announced that she had been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer.[2] Mentel died on 29 March 2021 from the disease, aged 48.[3]
Notes[change | change source]
- ↑ Formerly "IPC Snowboard Championships"
References[change | change source]
- ↑ "Bibian Mentel - Zo Doen We Dat". web.archive.org. 12 March 2018. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ↑ "Geen behandelplan meer mogelijk voor Bibian Mentel na nieuwe uitzaaiingen". NU.nl (in Dutch). 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ↑ Bibian Mentel (48), drievoudig paralympisch kampioene snowboarden, overleden , NOS, Dutch, published 29 March 2021
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