Sanne Keizer
- January 6, 2024
- Volleyball Player
Quick Facts
Full Name | Sanne Keizer |
Occupation | Volleyball Player |
Date Of Birth | Feb 6, 1985(1985-02-06) |
Age | 39 |
Birthplace | Doetinchem |
Country | Netherlands |
Horoscope | Aquarius |
Sanne Keizer Biography
Name | Sanne Keizer |
Birthday | Feb 6 |
Birth Year | 1985 |
Place Of Birth | Doetinchem |
Birth Country | Netherlands |
Birth Sign | Aquarius |
Sanne Keizer is one of the most popular and richest Volleyball Player who was born on February 6, 1985 in Doetinchem, Netherlands. Keizer was born on February 6, 1985. She was born in Doetinchem, Netherlands. As a young girl she was an avid swimmer before turning to water polo as her parents believed that she should participate in as a team sport rather than. She was selected for the national junior team in water polo and then resigned from the sport due to the fact that the chlorine-laced swimming pool water was turning her blonde hair green, and she was scared of visiting the hairdressers. When she was 11 she began playing indoor volleyball in order to keep playing the ball sport. From 1996 until 2002, Keizer was a player for her local team, Orion Volleybal Doetinchem, where she progressed through the ranks of youth to join the team’s first squad which played in the Eerste Divisie, the third division of the Dutch volleyball league system.
Keizer started playing indoor volleyball at 11 and spent a few years in the Dutch volleyball teams. She took part in her first beach volleyball international competition in 2002. She was the first U18 World Champion the same year. Keizer began her journey in the World Tour the following year. Through the following eight seasons she was unable to find international success, competing alongside three other partners. Her breakthrough came at year’s end when she joined forces together with van Iersel. They climbed into the top ten in the world rankings in the same year and won medals in the World Tour five times in total, winning the first World Tour title in 2011. The pair continued playing together up to the time Keizer quit beach volleyball towards the end of 2013.
After two seasons with Mooren, Keizer switched partners and played with Marrit Leenstra from 2005 to 2007. In the first year of their partnership, the duo did not place higher than 13th in the first ten World Tour events they entered. Seeded 11th at their next tournament, the $200K Montreal Open in August, they upset two top-ten seeds on their way to the semifinals where they lost to Brazil’s third-seeded Talita Antunes and Renata Ribeiro, followed by another loss to Brazil’s second-seeded Shelda Bede and Adriana Behar in the bronze-medal match. After Montreal, Keizer and Leenstra had top-ten finishes in four of their last five tournaments of 2005. They also competed in their first World Championships in June as the No. 22 seeds, posting three wins and two losses to tie for 17th place. They closed out their first season as teammates ranked 13th in the world.
Throughout the course of their partnership, Keizer and Leenstra were also active on the Nestea European Championship Tour, winning bronze medals at the €55K German and Swiss Masters in 2006. After failing to qualify two years prior, Keizer took part in the 2006 edition of the European Championships with Leenstra; they fell short of their No. 6 seed and finished ninth.
Keizer was picked by the team’s national beach volleyball squad at fifteen. The next couple of years she played club indoor volleyball , while also spending during the summer months playing with the junior beach volleyball team of the national squad in Dwingeloo. In the indoor section she moved between Orion to Longa 1959 during the 2002-03 season after which she moved to Amsterdam to play for one time playing VV Martinus in the Eredivisie the highest category within the Dutch volleyball league system. She remained in Amsterdam until her move into The Hague in 2008.
Sanne Keizer Net Worth
Net Worth | $5 Million |
Source Of Income | Volleyball Player |
House | Living in own house. |
Sanne Keizer is one of the richest Volleyball Player from Netherlands. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Sanne Keizer 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Sanne Keizer (born on the 6th of February, 1985) is a Dutch beach volleyball player who plays the position of an right-side defensive player with her teammate Madelein Meppelink. Her highlights in her career are two gold medals, four bronze and two silver medals from the FIVB World Tour. She has been two- time European Champion and she represented the Netherlands in the 2012 Summer Olympics and placed ninth alongside Marleen van Iersel.
Keizer made her debut on the international stage of beach volleyball during in 2002 at the U18 European Championships in August in which she as well as Arjanne Stevens took home Silver medals. The next week they won the title of the inaugural U18 World Champions with an unbeaten performance at Xylokastro, Greece.
Following her success on the junior circuit, Keizer debuted on the FIVB World Tour in 2003, partnering with Merel Mooren at the $150K Hellas Open in June. The duo did not progress past the qualifying rounds in Hellas or in their next four events. In their final tournament of the year at the $150K Lianyungang Open in August, Keizer and Mooren beat teams from Spain and Sweden to advance to Keizer’s first main draw on the World Tour. They lost all three of their group stage matches in the main draw and did not progress further. Keizer concluded her first season on the World Tour ranked No. 70 in the world with Mooren.
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Keizer and van Iersel made three more World Tour semifinals appearances the next season, but did not medal. The duo entered the 2010 European Championships as the No. 6 seeds, eventually finishing fourth with a loss to the German No. 1 seeds of Sara Goller and Laura Ludwig in the semifinals, and the Finnish No. 4 seeds of Emilia and Erika Nyström in the bronze-medal match. They were ranked No. 9 in the world at the conclusion of the season.
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The 2011 season was a breakthrough year for the pair as they became the first European women’s team to win back-to-back World Tour titles. They won their first World Tour title at the $190K Shanghai Open in May. Seeded No. 7, they reached the gold-medal match with upsets over three of the top-five seeds, then capped off an undefeated tournament run with a 15–21, 26–24, 15–13 victory over Jennifer Kessy and April Ross of the United States. Later that same month at the $190K Myslowice Open, Keizer and van Iersel were sent to the losers bracket in the third round of the double-elimination competition by Italy’s Greta Cicolari and Marta Menegatti. The pair then won four matches in a row to make it to the finals where they faced Cicolari and Menegatti once again. This time, the Dutch duo beat the Italians in two sets for their second World Tour title. After their success in Shanghai and Myslowice, they were temporarily set back by a back injury sustained by van Iersel that forced them to withdraw from their next tournament. By August however, they had attained another podium finish at the $300K Klagenfurt Grand Slam as the No. 8 seeds, losing only to the fourth-seeded Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings of the United States in the semifinals, before beating the third-seeded Brazilian duo of Maria Elisa and Talita to win the bronze medal.
Top Facts about Sanne Keizer
- Sanne Keizer is a Dutch professional beach volleyball player.
- She was born on February 6, 1985 in Doetinchem, Netherlands.
- Keizer has won multiple medals in international competitions.
- She won the European Championship in 2012 and 2018.
- Keizer also competed at the Olympic Games in London and Rio de Janeiro.
- Her highest world ranking was #3 in August 2012.
- Keizer has been playing professionally since 2004.
- She has played with various partners throughout her career.
- In addition to beach volleyball, she enjoys surfing and yoga.
- Keizer is known for her strong defensive skills on the court.