1976 DUTCH WOMEN'S SUPERSTARS

The first Dutch Women's Superstars was held at the same location as the men's competition and mirrored the events very closely. To no surprise, the long jumper won the 100 meter dash; the speed skater won cycling and the badminton player won table tennis. Ciska Jansen won the 100 meter dash in the same time as the men's winner with 800 meter runner Olga Commandeur finishing second. Olympic speed skating medalist Anje Keulen defeated field hockey player Jose Poelmans in the cycling final. The second place finish gave Poelmans the early lead. In the third event, badminton player Joke van Beusekom easily downed basketball's Carla deLiefede in the final. Keulen's third place finish put her in the overall lead.

The swimming was an interesting sight as for some reason, Commandeur wore a blonde wig with pigtails into the pool. It didn't help her swim fast as Olympic rower Ingrid Dusseldorp cruised to vcitory over Jansen in a time faster than Frank Nusse's winning time in the men's competition. Jansen's second place gave her 19 points and a slim lead. The roller skating was again a bizarre looking event, especially when de Liefde's feet went out from under her as she crossed the finish line first in her heat. Olympic gymnastic Ans Smulders van gerwen used her low center of gravity to power to the win over Commandeur. Halfway through the competition, van Beusekom and Jansen shared the lead with 19 points, with six other women within eight points.

The obstacle course was a curious looking event. Each woman had to do a straddle jump over a vaulting horse; perform a forward roll; run around a potted plant; jump to the top of a platform; around another potted plant; do a crab walk on parallel bars and then traverse a balance beam while performing a 360 degree turn on the beam. Janssen seemed headed to a quick time, but was forced to restart the parallel bars when she mounted past the markfor the beginning to the apparatus. Olympic swimming medalist Enith Brigitha had her best performance of the day, but her time was eclipsed by Keulen, who took the overall lead with her win. Commanduer easily took the long jump by 0.59 meters over de Liefde and moved within one point of Keulen for the overall lead. World cycling champion Keetie van Oosten had managed to finish last in almost all of her events prior to the kayaking, but posted the fastest time to defeat Commandeur and take the event's ten points. When Commandeur won the ninth event by scoring three goals out of five in handball, she wrapped up the overall competition while still just 17 years old.

Witht the overall competition decided, seven women remained in contention for second place. Jansen easily distanced herself from the rest of the field in the 600 meters to take third place overall. Even though Poelmans sprinted past Keulen in the final straight to take second in the race, she had to settle for fourth overall as Keulen's third place finish wrapped up second place in the overall competition.

Vlaardinjen

Competition Dates: N/A

Air Date: November 8, 1976

Announcers: Wim Jesse & Jack van der Voorn.

PLC. NAME, SPORT	100	CYCL	TBLT	SWIM	ROLL	OC	LJ	CANO	HAND	600	TOTAL	MONEY
1. Olga Commandeur, 800 Meters	7	-	1	1	7	1	10	7	10	-	49	ƒ 5,000
2. Atje Keulen, Speed Skating	-	10	4	-	-	10	4	0	0	4	32	ƒ 4,000
3. Ciska Jansen, Long Jump	10	-	2	7	0	0	-	1	0	10	30	ƒ 3,500
4. Jose Poelmans, Field Hockey	4	7	0	-	1	4	-	2	2	7	27	ƒ 2,500
5. Joke van Beusekom, Badminton	1	0	10	4	4	0	-	-	7	0	26	N/A
6. Ingrid Dusseldorp, Rowing	-	4	0	10	0	2	-	4	1	1	22	N/A
7. Carla de Liefde, Basketball	2	0	7	-	2	0	7	-	0	2	20	N/A
7. Ans Smulders-van Gerwen, Gymnastics	0	2	0	2	10	-	2	-	4	0	20	N/A
9. Keetie van Oosten, Cycling	-	-	0	0	0	0	0	10	0	0	10	N/A
10. Enith Brigitha, Swimming	-	1	0	-	-	7	1	0	0	0	9	N/A

INDIVIDUAL EVENT RESULTS

100 METER DASH

1. Ciska Jansen	12.3
2. Olga Commandeur	12.6
3. Jose Poelmans	13.0
4. Carla de Liefde	13.7e
5. Joke van Beusekom	13.8e
6. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	14.7e

CYCLING - 500 Meters - Race off for 1st/2nd and 3rd/4th

1. Atje Jeulen	N/A	58.0
2. Jose Poelmans	N/A	58.2
3. Ingrid Dusseldorp	N/A	1:01.0
4. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	N/A	1:01.7
5. Enith Brigitha	N/A

TABLE TENNIS

1. Joke van Beusekom	10
2. Carla de Liefde	7
3. Atje Keulen	4
4. Ciska Jansen	2
5. Olga commandeur	1
van Beusekom d. De Liefde	21-11
Keulen d. Jansen	21-16

SWIMMING - Final - 50 Meters

1. Ingrid Dusseldorp	33.1e
2. Ciska Janssen	38.0e
3. Joke van Beusekom	39.5e
4. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	45.8e
5. Olga Commandeur	48.1e
6. Keetie van Oosten	1:02.8e

ROLLER SKATING - 250 Meters

1. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	43.5e	43.3e
2. Olga Commandeur	44.1e	44.2e
3. Joke van Beusekom	44.2e	45.5e
4. Carla de Liefde	46.5e	46.2e
5. Jose Poelmans	47.9e	46.3e
6. Keetie van Oosten	45.6e
7. Ciska Janssen	52.1e
8. Ingrid Dusseldorp	53.6e

OBSTACLE COURSE

1. Atje Keulen	19.6
2. Enith Brigitha	20.1
3. Jose Poelmans	20.3
4. Ingrid Dusseldorp	21.0
5. Olga commandeur	21.3
6. Joke van Beusekom	21.6
7. Carla de Liefde	21.9
8. Ciska Jansen	22.8
9. Keetie van Oosten	24.6

LONG JUMP

1. Olga Commandeur	5.43
2. Carla de Liefde	4.83
3. Atje Keulen	4.53
4. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	4.18
5. Enith Brigitha	3.89
6. Keeite van Oosten	N/A

KAYAKING - 100 Meters

1. Keeite van Oosten	45.7
2. Olga Commandeur	49.1
3. Ingrid Dusseldorp	49.2
4. Jose Poelmans	50.9
5. Ciska Jansen	51.4
6. Enith Brigitha	53.2
7. Atje Keulen	55.5

HANDBALL PENALTIES - 5 shots

1. Olga Commandur	3
2. Joke van Beusekom	2
3. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	2
4. Jose Poelmans	2
5. Ingrid Dusseldrop	1
Enith Brigitha	0
Carla de Liefde	0
Ciska Jansen	0
Atje Keulen	0
Keetie van Oosten	0

600 METER RUN

1. Ciska Jansen	1:46.4e
2. Jose Poelmans	1:47.1e
3. Atje Keulen	1:50.3e
4. Carla de Liefde	1:51.7e
5. Ingrid Dusseldorp	1:51.8e
6. Keetie van Oosten	1:59.8e
7. Enith Brigitha	2:02.9e
8. Ans Smulders van Gerwen	2:03.4e
9. Joke van Beusekom	2:06.2e

e = estimated time

r = Superstars record

N/A = result not available

dnf - did not finish

nm - no mark

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