Bibian Mentel
Bibian Mentel-Spee (27 September 1972 – 29 March 2021) was a Dutch three-fold
Winter Paralympics gold-medalist, and five-times world champion para-
snowboarding athlete. Mentel won the Paralympic gold medal in the
snowboard cross discipline in the 2014 and 2018
Paralympic Winter Games, as well as in the
banked slalom in 2018, despite battling cancer nine times since the beginning of the century. She won her 2018 medals at age 45.
Mentel co-wrote two books about her life, career, and struggles with cancer, and set up her own "Mentelity" foundation.
In 2012, Mentel was invested as a knight of the
Order of Orange-Nassau.
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