Maria Thomas van ’t Hek (born 1 April 1958 in Naarden) is a former field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 striker from the Netherlands

Netherlands

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, who played 221 international matches for the Dutch national field hockey team

Netherlands national field hockey team

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, in which he scored a total number of 106 goals. He made his debut on 24 September 1976 against East Germany, and competed for the Netherlands at the 1984 Summer Olympics

1984 Summer Olympics

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 in Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles, California

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After his hockey career he became the head coach of the Dutch women's hockey team

Netherlands women's national field hockey team

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, with whom he won two bronze Olympic

Field hockey at the Summer Olympics

Field hockey was introduced at the Summer Olympic Games as a men's competition at the 1908 Games in London, with six teams, including four from the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland....

 medals, at the 1996 Summer Olympics

1996 Summer Olympics

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 and at the 2000 Summer Olympics

2000 Summer Olympics

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. Furthermore the Netherlands won the European title twice (1995 and 1999) with Van 't Hek in charge. He resigned after the Sydney Games and became a radio presenter of a popular sports program called Langs de Lijn.

Tom van 't Hek is the younger brother of popular Dutch comedian and publicist Youp van 't Hek

Youp van 't Hek

Joseph Jacobus Maria "Youp" van 't Hek is a Dutch comedian and a columnist for NRC Handelsblad.- Biography :Youp was born and raised in the Gooi, a wealthy region to the southeast of Amsterdam. His youth there served as an inspiration for his ironic attitude toward the rich, the successful and all...

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