Peter Blangé is a retired volleyball

Volleyball

Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules.The complete rules are extensive...

 player

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 from the Netherlands

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, who represented his native country in four consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988

Volleyball at the 1988 Summer Olympics

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 in Seoul, South Korea.

His finest hour came in 1996, when he won the gold medal in Atlanta, Georgia

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 with the Dutch Men's National Team by defeating Italy

Italy men's national volleyball team

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 in the final (3-2). Blangé obtained a total number of fivehundred caps (a national record) for the Netherlands, and started a career as volleyball coach after his career. He is currently the head coach of the Dutch Men's National Team.

On 2000-01-05 Blangé beat the record of international caps in the history of volleyball. In the match against Yugoslavia for the European Olympic Qualification Tournament in Katowice

Katowice

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 (Poland

Poland

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) he earned his 464th international selection. This record previously belonged to his compatriot, Ron Zwerver

Ron Zwerver

Ronald Ferdinand Zwerver is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1988 in Seoul, South Korea...

, who finished his international career in December 1996 with 463 caps for his country