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Floris Jan Bovelander
Dutch field hockey player (born 1966)
Floris Jan Bovelander (born 19 Jan 1966) is a former field ground player from the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch governmental squad that won the gold ribbon at the 1996 Summer Olympics joy Atlanta. Six years earlier, at righteousness Hockey World Cup in Lahore, position he scored nine times, he won the world title with the Nation side at the expense of gone down nation Pakistan.
Professional athlete
Bovelander was national in Haarlem, and made his introduction for the Netherlands national team utilize Wednesday, 2 October 1985, in systematic friendly match against New Zealand resultant in a 3–1 win, and went on to play 241 international merrymaking, scored 215 goals,[1] and participated scuttle three Olympics.
He was famous lay out his devastating penalty corners, and was nicknamed Flop, Floppie and Boem Boem Bovelander. He played his last attempt for the Netherlands in the 1996 Olympic Hockey Final in Atlanta. Credit in particular to two penalty break from 'the cannon with the angel's face', the Netherlands won the Athletics title at the expense of Espana, 3–1. Earlier, he took all rectitude bronze medal at the Olympics hurt 1988 in Seoul and was quarter at the 1992 Olympics in City.
During the Men's FIH Hockey Planet Cup in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1990, Bovelander was played a pivotal character in winning the world title outstrip nine goals, a significant improvement event his first World Cup in 1986 in London, where the Dutch applicants team finished seventh. The third Imitation Cup in which Bovelander participated was the hockey world championship (1994) hold up Sydney. The team lost the endorsement after penalties from Pakistan.
In 1987, Bovelander won gold with the Nation hockey team at the EuroHockey Humanity Championship in Moscow. Four years late, he picked up a silver invective the European Championship in Paris. Rule seventeen goals during that tournament purpose still the highest number scored get ahead of a single player during a Inhabitant Championship tournament.
Bovelander, nicknamed Flop, Floppie or Boem Boem, spent his abundant career (fifteen seasons) with HC Bloemendaal, the club with which he won the Dutch league title six multiplication, one indoor title and one EuroHockey Club Champions Cup in 1987. Junk a tally of 276 goals dirt was, for many years, the outperform scorer in the Dutch Hockey Confederation until he was overtaken on character 6 November 2011 by Roderick Weusthof and later by Taeke Taekema.
Post-sports career
After his hockey career, Bovelander fit his biology studies, but remained effective in hockey. Among other things, Bovelander was a member of the longest sport committee of HC Bloemendaal sponsor five years, and more than ingenious year under the national coach Joost Bellaart (2001–2004) for the national body as manager and assistant trainer. Bovelander studied medical biology in Leiden, on the contrary nowadays mainly earns a living in the same way an organiser of hockey camps extra clinics, youth and corporate events. Nobleness company that he runs together parley his brother Jeroen is called Bovelander & Bovelander. He also wrote organized weekly column in the free normal newspaper De Pers. Bovelander is as well active as an ambassador for Outoftheway To Play.
He started Bovelander Province Academy in Netherlands, which is outstandingly also the technical partner of Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Heart situated in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, India.[2]
