Pieter_van_Straaten
Pieter van Straaten
French field hockey player
Pieter Georges van Straaten (born 23 October 1992)[1] is a French field hockey player who plays as a forward for Belgian Hockey League club Antwerp and the French national team.[2]
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| Full name | Pieter Georges van Straaten | ||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1992-10-23) 23 October 1992 (age 31) Leiderdorp, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Antwerp | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
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| Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
| Alecto | |||||||||||||||||
| 0000–2018 | HDM | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2020 | Waterloo Ducks | ||||||||||||||||
| 2020–present | Antwerp | ||||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | France U–21 | 12 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2012–present | France | 97 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Under–21
Pieter van Straaten debuted for the France U–21 team in 2012 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship in 's-Hertogenbosch.[3]
The following year he went on to represent the team at the FIH Junior World Cup in New Delhi. At the tournament he won a silver medal, a history making performance for the French team.[4][5]
Senior national team
Van Straaten made his debut for the French national team in 2012.[2]
In 2018, he represented his country at the FIH World Cup in Bhubaneswar.[6]
Since his debut, Pieter van Straaten has been a regular fixture in the national squad.[4] He won his first major medal with the senior team in 2019 at the FIH Series Finals in Le Touquet, taking home a gold medal.[7][4]
He was a member of the national team at the 2021 EuroHockey Championships in Amsterdam,[8] and was also named in the French squad for the 2021–22 FIH Pro League.[4]
- "Team Details – France". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "Pieter VAN STRAATEN". ffhockey.org (in French). Fédération Française de Hockey. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "Jong Oranjemannen verliezen EK-finale van Belgen". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond. Archived from the original on 21 October 2012. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "van STRAATEN Pieter". tms.fih.ch. International Hockey Federation. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "Germany lifts the Hero Hockey Junior World Cup Men 2013 Beats France 5-2". hockeyindia.org. Hockey India. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "France". worldcup2018.hockey. FIH World Cup. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "GREEN MACHINE SUFFERS THE BLUES AS HOST NATION SWEEPS TO VICTORY". fihseriesfinals.com. FIH Series Finals. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
- "Pieter van Straaten". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Hockey Netherlands. Retrieved 10 February 2022.