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Name
  
Marten Eikelboom

Role
  
Olympic athlete

Height
  
1.85 m


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Marten Eikelboom (born October 12, 1973 in Zwolle) is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch team that won the gold medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney. After the World Hockey Cup in Kuala Lumpur (2002) he retired from the national squad, but in 2004 he made a comeback, just because of the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, where he finished second.

Eikelboom played 177 international matches for the Dutch, in which he scored a total number of 58 goals. He made his debut on June 5, 1994 in a friendly against New Zealand. In the Dutch League he played for Hattem and Amsterdam, with whom he won the title four times.

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Marten Eikelboom Wikipedia