Name Sander Baart Role Field Hockey player | Height 1.78 m Weight 78 kg | |
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Born 30 April 1988 (age 35) ( 1988-04-30 ) Edegem, Belgium Olympic medals Field hockey at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Men's tournament Similar People Bob de Voogd, Mink van der Weerden, Robert van der Horst, Jaap Stockmann, Billy Bakker | ||
Champions Trophy 2012 Melbourne Final Goal by Sander Baart
Sander Baart (born 30 April 1988) is a Dutch field hockey player of Belgian descent.
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- Champions Trophy 2012 Melbourne Final Goal by Sander Baart
- De nieuwe uitdaging van sander baart
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He started playing at the age of 6 at R. Antwerp H.C. in Belgium and in his final season with them in 2007 won the Belgian national title. As of the 2007-2008 season he was playing for the Dutch club Oranje-Zwart. In 2014 , 2015 and 2016 he won 3 consecutive Dutch national titles with his club. And in 2015 he also won the EHL (Euro Hockey League) with his club.
As a junior player he played for the Belgian national team Boys Under 16 and won the European title with them. Later on he switched to the Dutch national teams and won European silver and gold medals for the Dutch Under 21 team and the silver medal at the Junior World Championship (U21).
He played his first official match for the senior Dutch national men's team in 2007 against Korea. He is the only player to be selected for the Dutch national team without ever having played in the Dutch competition prior to his debut. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament, winning the silver medal. With the national team he won a gold medal in the first World League in 2014, silver at the World Cup that same year and a gold medal in 2015 at the European Championship. He participated in the Rio Olympics in 2016 where he made the semi-final. In August 2017 he extended his European title in Amsterdam beating his other homeland Belgium in the final.
On a club level he also represented the Uttar Pradesh Wizards in the first three seasons of the Hockey India League as well as in 2017. In the European club season of 2017-2018 he played for Real Club de Polo de Barcelona. As of the 2017-2018 season he will be playing for Braxgata in the Belgian club competition.