Sander Baart

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Sander Baart
Baart with the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Born (1988-04-30) 30 April 1988 (age 36)
Edegem, Belgium
Height 178 cm (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 76 kg (168 lb)
Playing position Defender
Club information
Current club Braxgata HC
Senior career
Years Team
2007 - 2016 Oranje Zwart
2016 - 2017 Real Club de Polo
2017 - present Braxgata HC
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007 - present  Netherlands 154(6)
Medal record
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2012 London Team
World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2010 New Dehli
Silver medal – second place 2014 The Hague
Champions Trophy
Bronze medal – third place 2010 Mönchengladbach
Silver medal – second place 2012 Melbourne
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Breda
European Championship
Bronze medal – third place 2009 Amstelveen
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Boom
Gold medal – first place 2015 London
Gold medal – first place 2017 Amsterdam
Last updated on: 1 July 2018

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 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.[1] [2] 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.

References

  1. ^ "Sander Baart Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Retrieved 26 July 2017. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |dead-url= (help)
  2. ^ "Men's Hockey: Netherlands". London2012.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
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