Corrie Bakker
{{Short description|Dutch track and field athlete}}
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| caption =Corrie Bakker in 1966
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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|df=y|1945|06|15}}
| birth_place = Utrecht, Netherlands
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| height = {{convert|1.76|m|ftin|abbr=on}}
| weight = {{convert|63|kg|lb|abbr=on}}
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| sport = Athletics
| event = Sprint, pentathlon, long jump
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Cornelia Johanna Marretje "Corrie" Bakker (later Stigter, born 15 June 1945) is a retired track and field athlete from the Netherlands who competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.[https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074526/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/corrie-bakker-1.html Corrie Bakker]. sports-reference.com
Biography
Bakker finished third behind Berit Berthelsen in the long jump event at the British 1966 WAAA Championships.{{cite news |url=https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0004941/19660703/799/0027 |title=Fleet-footed Anne has that gold-medal look |work=Sunday Express |date=3 July 1966 |via=British Newspaper Archive |url-access=subscription |access-date=1 March 2025 }}{{cite web|url=https://www.nuts.org.uk/Champs/AAA/index.htm |title=AAA, WAAA and National Championships Medallists |website=National Union of Track Statisticians |access-date=1 March 2025}}{{cite web|url=http://www.gbrathletics.com/bc/waaa.htm |title=AAA Championships (women) |website=GBR Athletics |access-date=1 March 2025 }}
At the 1968 Olympic Games in Mexico City, Bakker was part of the Dutch 4 × 100 m relay team that finished fourth. Her personal best in the 100 m was 11.7 seconds (1965).{{cite web|url=https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/quick_search |title=Biographical Information |website=Olympedia |access-date=1 March 2025}}
After retiring from competition, in 1972 she married John Stigter, and in 1975 gave birth to a son.
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Category:Athletes (track and field) at the 1968 Summer Olympics
Category:Dutch female sprinters
Category:Dutch female long jumpers
Category:Olympic athletes for the Netherlands
Category:Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
Category:Athletes from Utrecht (province)
Category:20th-century Dutch people
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