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Henk Meijer (Hendrik Meijer) was born on 22 July, 1959 in Winschoten, Netherlands, is a Dutch taekwondo practitioner. Discover Henk Meijer's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 64 years old?

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Occupation Taekwondo coach
Age 64 years old
Zodiac Sign Cancer
Born 22 July, 1959
Birthday 22 July
Birthplace Winschoten, Netherlands
Nationality Netherlands

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1959

Henk Meijer (born 22 July 1959) is a Dutch taekwondo coach and former Olympic taekwondo competitor.

Meijer was born on 22 July 1959 in Winschoten, Netherlands.

He is the fifth out of six children born in his family (he has two brothers and three sisters), and his parents divorced when he was just three years old.

His mother took responsibility for raising him.

Meijer trained in judo from the ages of 7 to 11, and achieved brown belt rank in that art.

From the ages of 11 to 15, he played football.

He then trained briefly in Shotokan karate at age of 14 before beginning to practise taekwondo couple of years later.

At the time, the only style of taekwondo available in his home region was the International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) style.

Meijer began training in ITF taekwondo under Jan Suiveer, and later continued under Wim Bos, one of Suiveer's students.

1980

For a few years in the early 1980s, Meijer competed in both ITF and WTF competitions.

1981

In 1981, he began training in the World Taekwondo Federation (WTF) style of taekwondo.

The main reason he moved from the ITF to the WTF was because the latter organisation had gained Olympic recognition.

He also expressed dissatisfaction with the poor standard of organisation of ITF competition in the Netherlands at the time.

1982

He was listed at 191 cm (6' 3") in height and 105 kg (232 lb.) in weight. In WTF competition in 1982, he became European Heavyweight Champion, and won both the Dutch National Championships and the Dutch Open Championships. That same year, he trained under Hee Il Cho in Los Angeles for a month. The following year, he competed in the WTF's World Taekwondo Championships in Copenhagen and took third place in his division. He also took charge of the taekwondo school he had been training at from his instructor, Bos. In 1984, he took third place in the men's heavyweight division at the ITF World Championships in Glasgow.

1985

He was the men's heavyweight champion at the 7th World Taekwondo Championships in 1985, becoming the first non-Korean to win a world title in taekwondo in South Korea.

In early September 1985, Meijer competed in the WTF's World Taekwondo Championships in Seoul, South Korea, and won the men's heavyweight (+83 kg) title, becoming the first non-Korean to win a world title in South Korea.

1988

In 1988, he took bronze at the European Championships in Ankara and at the World Cup in Helsinki.

That same year, he competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, where taekwondo made its first Olympic Games appearance as a demonstration sport; this was the last time he participated as a competitor.

Meijer later wrote, "Although I lost my 2nd fight against my big opponent and good friend Michael Arndt from Germany, it was a beautiful finish of my career as a competitor."

By the end of his competitive taekwondo career, he had won five Dutch National Championships and five Dutch Open Championships.

1990

From 1990 to 1994, Meijer coached the Dutch national taekwondo team.

1994

In 1994, he was ranked 4th dan in taekwondo, and by 2000, he had reached 5th dan in the art.

2000

He was Olympic taekwondo coach for the Netherlands at the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics, and was later national taekwondo coach for France.

Meijer was the Dutch taekwondo team's coach for the 2000 Summer Olympics and the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2006

By 2006, Meijer was ranked 6th dan, but noted that rank was not particularly important to him.

That year, he became Head Coach of the French Taekwondo Federation.

Under his guidance, French taekwondo competitors won gold, silver, and bronze at the 2006 European Championships in Bonn.

2009

In 2009, he began coaching in Australia, but soon withdrew from his position due to political problems with sport taekwondo there.

2010

In February 2010, he began working as Head Coach for the Greek Taekwondo Federation.

On 1 February 2010, Meijer took on the position of Head Coach for the Greek Taekwondo Federation, having made the decision to leave his Australian coaching commitments.

Apart from his taekwondo competition experience and rank, he holds a master's degree in sports coaching, which he earned in the Netherlands.