Sander Baart

Sander Baart

Baart with the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Nationality Dutch
Born (1988-04-30) 30 April 1988
Edegem, Belgium
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Sport
Country  Netherlands
Sport Field hockey

Sander Baart (born 30 April 1988) is a Dutch field hockey player of Belgian descent. 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 is playing for the Dutch club Oranje-Zwart. In 2014 he also won the Dutch national title with his club. Followed by the double in 2015 with Oranje-Zwart winning the national title as well as the EHL (Euro Hockey League). 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 Dutch national men's team in 2007 against Korea. At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament. With the national team he won a gold medal in the first World League in 2014 and in 2015 the European Championship. He represented the Uttar Pradesh Wizards in the first three seasons of the Hockey India League.[1]

References

  1. "Men's Hockey: Netherlands". London2012.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.


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