| Tineke Bartels-de Vries |
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| Family name | : | Bartels-de Vries |
| First name | : | Tineke |
| Day of birth | : | 06/02/1951 |
| Registration service | : | Married to Joep Bartels |
| Children | : | Gijs (1975) and Imke (1977) |
| Residence | : | Hooge Mierde |
| Trainer | : | Daughter Imke Schellekens - Bartels |
| Occupation | : | Technical director of the equestrian Academy |
| Sponsors | : | Hunter Douglas |
1967: Tineke, daugther of a butcher, starts riding at a very early age. As a Young Rider she participates at the first edition of Indoor Brabant, the well known international horse show. She was an instructor at the local riders club (1972-1977) at an early age. She competes in all disciplines, from local to national level.
1974: Tineke becomes National Eventing Champion with her mare Irene. She is very involved in the local and national equestrian organisations and she graduates as an instructor. In this year Tineke also graduates at the Academy for physical education in Tilburg, the Netherlands. After a few years as instructor for physical training at several schools, Tineke becomes an equestrian instructor.
1977: During the European Championships for Rural Riders in Porrentruy (Switzerland) Tineke wins eventing team gold. Tineke becomes chef d'equipe and trainer of the Dutch teams who compete at European Championships for Rural Riders (1980-1984).
1982: Tineke decides to specialize in dressage. She competes at four Olympic Games and wins two silver team medals (Barcelona and Atlanta). Tineke also wins four silver and four bronze medals at World and European Championships. She competes a huge number of World Cup Finals. Tineke's first Olympic horse, Olympic Duco, was bought from a rider at the local riders club, and Tineke taught the horse herself, from basic to Grand Prix level.
1989: Tineke writes many technical articles for magazines, is author of a educational equestrian course and she writes "het Grote Pony Boek" which is translated into five languages and over 30,000 copies are sold.
1992: Tineke is a member of the NOC*NSF athletics committee (until 2000) and she becomes chairwoman of the NHS athletics committee (to date).
1994: Tineke becomes member of the KWPN Board (till 1998).
1997: Tineke gets a national award for her equestrian career and her dedication to the equestrian sport.
Tineke becomes the director of the Academy in Hooge Mierde, the Netherlands. Once in a while she also gives lessons at equestrian education centre in Deurne. Until 2002 Tineke is the assistant national coach for the Dutch teams. It is also the year the Academy starts the training arrangements. Shortly after introducing the training arrangements there is already a waiting-list.
2000: Tineke's book 'Riding with Tineke Bartels' is sold to over 10.000 people.
2002: Tineke makes her come back at the age of 52 and represents the Dutch team in Jerez (World Championship) with the stallion Broere Jazz. Tineke en Imke coach each other, Imke competes at top-level as well.
2004: During the Dutch Championship 2004 in Nijmegen Tineke finishes seventh with Broere Jazz. In the kür she scores almost 72%.