Mieke Sterk, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Mieke Sterk

Track and field athlete

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1946

Place of Birth: Haarlem, County of Holland, Netherlands

Profession: politician, athletics competitor

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Mieke Sterk (born 5 January 1946) is a retired track and field athlete and politician from the Netherlands.
She was part of the Dutch 4×100 m relay team that finished in fourth place at the 1968 Summer Olympics.
Individually, she failed to reach the final in the 200 m event.
Two years later she won a bronze medal in the pentathlon at the 1970 Universiade and finished fifth in the 60 m hurdles at the European Indoor Championships.
Her personal bests were 11.6 seconds in the 100 m (1968) and 23.5 seconds in the 200 m (1973).
After retiring from athletics she became involved in politics and between 1994 and 1998 was a member of the Tweede Kamer of the Dutch House of Representatives.