Glenn Schuurman

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Glenn Schuurman
Personal information
Born (1991-04-16) 16 April 1991 (age 33)
Boxtel, Netherlands
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 79 kg (174 lb)
Playing position Defender
Youth career
MEP
Senior career
Years Team
0000–2009 MEP
2009–2023 Bloemendaal
National team
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2021 Netherlands 159 (3)
Medal record
Men's Field hockey
Representing the  Netherlands
World Cup
Silver medal – second place 2018 Bhubaneswar
EuroHockey Championship
Gold medal – first place 2015 London
Gold medal – first place 2017 Amstelveen
Gold medal – first place 2021 Amstelveen
Bronze medal – third place 2019 Antwerp
Champions Trophy
Silver medal – second place 2012 Melbourne
Bronze medal – third place 2018 Breda
EuroHockey Junior Championship
Silver medal – second place 2012 's-Hertogenbosch

Glenn Schuurman (Dutch pronunciation: [glɛn sxyrmɑn]; born 16 April 1991) is a Dutch former field hockey player who played as a defender or midfielder. He played a total 159 matches from 2012 until 2021 for the Dutch national team and scored three goals.[1]

He participated at the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2]

Club career[edit]

He was born in Boxtel in the Netherlands, where he started playing hockey for the local hockey club MEP. In 2009 he transferred to Bloemendaal where he won the Dutch national title in 2010. In the 2018–19 season, he won his second national title with Bloemendaal by defeating Kampong in the championship final.[3] The lost championship final against Pinoké in the 2022–23 season was his last match in the Bloemendaal team as he retired.[4]

International career[edit]

Schuurman made his debut for the Dutch national team in 2012 in a friendly match against England. The following tournament, the 2012 Champions Trophy, they finished second and he won his first medal with the national team. At the 2018 Champions Trophy in Breda he played his 100th match for the Dutch national team.In June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship.[5] They won the bronze medal by defeating Germany 4–0.[6] After the 2020 Summer Olympics, he announced his retirement from international hockey.[7]

Honours[edit]

Bloemendaal
Netherlands

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Interlandhistorie - KNHB" (in Dutch).
  2. ^ "RIO 2016 profile". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 20 August 2016.
  3. ^ "Oranjefeest in Bloemendaal: hockeyers na negen jaar weer kampioen". nos.nl (in Dutch). NOS. 26 May 2019. Retrieved 6 June 2019.
  4. ^ Borcherts, Reemt (30 May 2023). "Het verpeste afscheid van Schuurman: 'Dit was ondermaats'". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  5. ^ "Selectie Heren EK Hockey 2019 bekend". www.knhb.nl (in Dutch). Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond. 29 July 2019. Archived from the original on 9 August 2019. Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Hockeyers verslaan Duitsland weer en pakken brons". www.ad.nl (in Dutch). Algemeen Dagblad. 24 August 2019. Retrieved 24 August 2019.
  7. ^ Borcherts, Reemt (1 October 2021). "'Afwachten of ik straks nog in het plaatje pas bij Oranje'". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 9 November 2022.

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