What is Bert van der Helm?
[[File:Bert vd Helm, Bestanddeelnr 930-1728.jpg|thumb|Van der Helm in 1979]] '''Bert van der Helm''' (born 1948 in [[Zoeterwoude]]) is a former Dutch [[table tennis]] player and coach. ==Career== ===Player=== Van der Helm competed 189 times for the Dutch national team, competing at five European Championships and five World Championships.<ref name=evc>{{cite web|url= http://www.evc2007.nl/?menu=nieuws&page=nieuws&html=0&id=43 |work=2007 European Veterans Championships|title= Bert van der Helm: 'Eigen mensen opleiden en meer binding!'|date=2007|access-date=16 June 2022|language=nl}}</ref> Van der Helm became 25 times national champion.<ref name=evc /><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20160310005253/http://www.nttblimburg.nl/nedkam.htm Nederlandse kampioenen] NTTB, 2012</ref> * 12 times individual champion (1966, 1967, 1968, 1969, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1976, 1977, 1979 1980) * 8 times men’s doubles with [[Gerard Bakker Sr]] (1966 and 1970), with [[Nico van Slobbe]] (1972, 1974 en 1978), with [[Will van Zoelen|Anton-Will van Zoelen]] (1977), with [[Han Gootzen]] (1980) and with [[René Hijne]] (1982). * 6 times mixed doubles including with his wife [[Ellen Kort]] (1966, 1967 and 1969), with [[Aukje Wynia]] (1970), with [[Mieke Arntz]] (1977) and with [[Ine Willems]] (1980) ===Coach=== Van der Helm became table tennis coach. During the 1980s he was head coach of the men’s national team and have been criticized by players.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ddd:011206891:mpeg21:a0423 |title=Tafeltennis|work=[[De Telegraaf]]|via=[[Delpher]]|date=17 May 1984| access-date=16 June 2022|language=nl}}</ref> In 1994 he refused to become head coach of the Dutch national team.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?query=Bert+Helm+tafeltennis&coll=ddd&page=1&sortfield=datedesc&identifier=KBPERS01:003125017:mpeg21:a00198&resultsidentifier=KBPERS01:003125017:mpeg21:a00198&rowid=5 |title=Bert van der Helm bedankt |work=[[Algemeen Dagblad]]|via=[[Delpher]]|date=2