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 (archived) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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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
- ↑ Formerly "IPC Snowboard Championships"
References
- ↑ "Bibian Mentel - Zo Doen We Dat" [Bibian Mentel - That's How We Do It]. TeamNL.org (in Dutch). 12 March 2018. Archived from the original on 12 March 2018. Retrieved 25 August 2021.
- ↑ "Geen behandelplan meer mogelijk voor Bibian Mentel na nieuwe uitzaaiingen" [No further treatment plan is possible for Bibian Mentel after new metastases were discovered]. NU.nl (in Dutch). 5 March 2021. Retrieved 5 March 2021.
- ↑ "Bibian Mentel (48), drievoudig paralympisch kampioene snowboarden, overleden" [Bibian Mentel (48), three-time Paralympic snowboarding champion, has passed away]. NOS Sport (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 March 2021.
Other websites
- Bibian Mentel at FIS (snowboarding)
- Bibian Mentel at Paralympic.org
- Bibian Mentel at NOC*NSF (in Dutch)
- Bibian Mentel at TeamNL.org (in Dutch)