Sander Baart
 Baart with the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexander Baart | ||
| Born |
30 April 1988 Edegem, Belgium | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Braxgata | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994– | Antwerp | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| –2007 | Antwerp | ||
| 2007–2016 | Oranje Zwart | ||
| 2016–2017 | Real Club de Polo | ||
| 2017– | Braxgata | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007– | Netherlands | 180 | (6) |
Medal record | |||
| Last updated on: 4 July 2018 | |||
Alexander "Sander" Baart (Dutch pronunciation: ['sɑndər baːrt]; born 30 April 1988) is a Dutch field hockey player of Belgian descent who plays for Belgian club Braxgata and the Dutch national team.[1]
Club career
He started playing at the age of 6 at Royal Antwerp HC 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 Euro Hockey League with his club.
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.
International career
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.[2] [3]
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.
References
- ^ "Sander Baart". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 8 April 2019.
- ^ "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) - ^ "Men's Hockey: Netherlands". London2012.com. Retrieved 1 August 2012.
External links
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Dutch male field hockey players
- Male field hockey defenders
- Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- People from Edegem
- Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics
- Oranje Zwart players
- Real Club de Polo de Barcelona players
- Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
- División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players