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Michelle van der Pols (born 6 January 1989) is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as a midfielder for Dutch club SV Kampong. She also plays for the Netherlands national team and she was part of the Dutch squad that became 2007 Champions Trophy winner.
van der Pols also was a member of the Netherlands' 2010 Women's Hockey World Cup team. [1]
Approximately 5 million of the 17 million people in the Netherlands are registered to one of the 35,000 sports clubs in the country. About two thirds of the population older than 15 years participates in sports weekly.
Naomi van As is a Dutch field hockey player who plays as a forward/midfield for a Dutch club MHC Laren.
Marianne ("Miek") Antoinette van Geenhuizen is a Dutch field hockey player who played as an attacker for Dutch clubs Oranje Zwart, HC Den Bosch and Laren. Currently she is playing for Amsterdam.
Johanna ("Janneke") Dorotheo Maria Schopman is a former Dutch field hockey player who played as a defender for Dutch club HC Den Bosch and the Netherlands national team. She is the head coach of the Indian women's national field hockey team
Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club is the oldest professional field hockey club of the Netherlands, based in Amstelveen. AH&BC is also the largest field hockey club in the city.
The Netherlands competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, People's Republic of China. This was announced in an official statement on the NOC*NSF website. In the statement they named the Olympic Games and the Paralympic Games as a highlight in sports to which a lot of sportspeople, coaches and the Dutch sports fans would look forward. The Netherlands aimed for a top 10 nations ranking in the Olympics as well as a top 25 ranking in the Paralympics; they ended up ranking 12th at the Games.
Kirsten Johanna Maria van de Ven is a former Dutch professional footballer. Prior to her professional career, she played College soccer in the United States. Professionally she played in the Dutch league (Eredivisie) for Willem II Tilburg and FC Twente, and in the Swedish league (Damallsvenskan) for Tyresö FF and FC Rosengård. She won titles at clubs in both Sweden and the Netherlands, as an international player she was a member of the Netherlands women's national football team, and represented her country at the 2009 and 2013 editions of the UEFA Women's Championship, and the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup.
The Netherlands competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, United Kingdom, from 27 July to 12 August 2012. Dutch athletes have competed in every Summer Olympic Games since their official debut in 1908, with the exception of the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, which the Netherlands boycotted because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary. The Netherlands National Olympic Committee sent the nation's smallest delegation to the Games since 1988. A total of 175 athletes, 95 men and 80 women, competed in 18 sports.
Claudia Voňková, née Anna Gerarda Maria "Claudia" van den Heiligenberg is a former Dutch footballer who played for Bayern Munich II in the German 2. Bundesliga. She played for the Dutch national team between 2005 and 2016 and won national league and cup titles in the Netherlands.
Shanice Janice van de Sanden is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a forward for Women's Super League club Liverpool and the Netherlands national team.
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Frederique Derkx is a Dutch field hockey player.
The Netherlands competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, from 5 to 21 August 2016. Since the nation's official debut in 1900, Dutch athletes had competed at every edition of the Summer Olympic Games in the modern era, with the exception of the sparsely attended 1904 Summer Olympics in St. Louis and 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, which the Netherlands boycotted because of the Soviet invasion of Hungary.
Stefanie van der Gragt is a Dutch professional footballer who plays as a defender for the Netherlands national team. She has represented her country at the 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup and 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup.
Ingrid van der Elst is a Dutch former sportswoman who represented her country in both cricket and field hockey. In hockey, she was a goalkeeper for the Dutch national indoor team, while in cricket she played as a right-handed batter, right-arm off break bowler and occasional wicket-keeper, and represented both the Netherlands and International XI, playing seven One Day Internationals for the latter team at the 1982 Women's Cricket World Cup. She played domestic cricket for Wellington.
Tessa van der Gun is a Dutch cricketer whose international career for the Dutch national side spanned from 2000 to 2014. She played in seven One Day International (ODI) matches, all of which came at the 2000 World Cup.
Vera Dorothea Wilhelmina van Pol is a Dutch artistic gymnast. She represented the Netherlands at the 2016 and 2020 Summer Olympics. She won a bronze medal with the Dutch team at the 2018 European Championships. She is the 2015 and 2018 Dutch all-around champion. She competed at the 2013, 2014, 2018, and 2021 World Championships.
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