Interview Marije Smits

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Handicap in the Netherlands
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Interview Marije
Marije smits19 years

• Marije lost her leg, when she was twelve years,
  because she had a tumor in her leg.

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• Marije now does athletic far-jumping. She trains
  six times a week. She trains on a normal
  athletics course. She has a special prothese for
  sport and an extra one for normal days. This is a
  picture of her sport prothese.
• It is very expensive to buy materials, so she is
  very dependant on her sponsors. They provide her
  with some money, her prothese and clothes.
• She has also played in the paralympics 2004, but
  she aims to achieve more next time in 2008. Her
  goal now is the World Championship in Assen.

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Obstacles in her life

• She thinks that she doenst really have a
  handicap. She just has a little more trouble with
  things than people without a handicap. The only
  thing she wont be able to do is ballroom
  dancing. According to her, she didnt really have
  obstacles in her life. Her family supported her
  very much, and she was very strong minded.

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Marije In Action !
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Statistics
Level of handicap Total percentage Total amount
Light 13,3 1.945.000
Medium 6,7 980.000
Severe 3,5 512.000
Level of handicap 6-19 years 6-19 years 20-64 years 20-64 years 65 65
Light 6,5 176.000 12,8 1.267.000 23,8 480.000
Medium 2,1 54.000 5,0 495.000 20,6 415.000
Severe 2,1 54.000 1,8 178.000 15,7 512.000
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Interview Cefas

• Cefas Bouwman
• 25 years
• When he was 13 years old he had a car accident
  that caused 4 bone fractures in his right leg,
  and a damaged meniscus. There was a change of
  revalidation but he felt and broke his hip, and
  demolished his knee.

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• Before Cefas became fully handicaped, he was an
  accountant, but now he is a 25 year old fulltime
  handbiker. He became so good at it, because he
  practised a lot. Now Cefas trains 20 hours a
  week. He earns enough money with handbiking to
  make it his primary income. The sponsors pay for
  his sporting equipment as well.

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Obstacles in his life

• Just like Marije, he doesnt really think he has
  a lot of obstacles in his life. He got the
  handicap when he was young, so he learned to grow
  up with it. He taught himself some tricks to deal
  with the obstacles he might encounter.

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Sport achievements

• Highlights of his career
• 1999 First European Championship (EC)
• 2000 Dutch champion of a roadrace
• 2001 Silver during EC timetrial
• Bronze during EC roadrace
• 2002 Bronze during World Championship timetrial
• 2004 Dutch champion timetrial
• first national title
• 2x 4th at the Paralympics in Athene
• 2005 Dutch champion timetrail
• European champion

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Cefas in action
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• Many thanks to
• Rob
• Stéphanie
• Lisette
• Femke
• And last but certainly not least Huub