Mandy de Jongh | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Born | Margaretha de Jongh 27 December 1961 (age 62) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||
Style | Taekwondo | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Margaretha "Mandy" de Jongh (born 27 December 1961)[1] is a taekwondo practitioner from the Netherlands. In 1987 she won the World Championships in the middleweight (then −70 kg) category. Next year, she received an unofficial silver medal in the same weight category at the 1988 Summer Olympics (taekwondo was then an exhibition event).[2][3] She also won two European titles in 1986 and 1988.[4]
Next to taekwondo she was a switchboard operator and receptionist at the Ministry of Education.[5]