Margot van Geffen
Personal information | |||
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Born |
Tilburg, Netherlands | 23 November 1989||
Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb)[1] | ||
Playing position | Defender[2] | ||
Club information | |||
Current club | HC 's-Hertogenbosch | ||
National team | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2011– | Netherlands | 168 | (12) |
Medal record |
Margot van Geffen (born 23 November 1989) is a Dutch field hockey player.
She took up field hockey aged six and since 2011 is a member of the Dutch national team. She won the 2014 World Cup and a gold and a silver medal at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, respectively.[3] After the 2012 Olympics she was invested as a Knight of the Order of Orange-Nassau.[2][4]
References[edit]
- ^ Margot van Geffen Archived 26 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine. rio2016.com
- ^ a b Margot van Geffen. nbcolympics.com
- ^ "Margot van Geffen Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 17 April 2020. Retrieved 9 November 2018.
- ^ Margot van Geffen. london2012.com
External links[edit]
Media related to Margot van Geffen at Wikimedia Commons
- Margot van Geffen at the International Hockey Federation
- Margot van Geffen at Olympics.com
- Margot van Geffen at Olympedia
- Margot van Geffen at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
Categories:
- 1989 births
- Living people
- Dutch female field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Sportspeople from Tilburg
- Field hockey players from North Brabant
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Female field hockey defenders
- HC Den Bosch players
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Dutch women
- 21st-century Dutch women
- Dutch field hockey biography stubs
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs