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Full name | Pieter Georges van Straaten | ||||||||||||||||
Born |
Leiderdorp, Netherlands | 23 October 1992||||||||||||||||
Height | 160 cm (5 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Weight | 63 kg (139 lb) | ||||||||||||||||
Playing position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
Club information | |||||||||||||||||
Current club | Antwerp | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
Alecto | |||||||||||||||||
Senior career | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||
Alecto | |||||||||||||||||
–2018 | HDM | ||||||||||||||||
2018–2020 | Waterloo Ducks | ||||||||||||||||
2020–present | Antwerp | ||||||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | France U–21 | 12 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2012–present | France | 97 | (17) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Pieter Georges van Straaten (born 23 October 1992) [1] is a French field hockey player who plays as a forward for Belgian Hockey League club Antwerp and the French national team. [2]
Pieter van Straaten debuted for the France U–21 team in 2012 at the EuroHockey Junior Championship in 's-Hertogenbosch. [3]
The following year he went on to represent the team at the FIH Junior World Cup in New Delhi. At the tournament he won a silver medal, a history making performance for the French team. [4] [5]
Van Straaten made his debut for the French national team in 2012. [2]
In 2018, he represented his country at the FIH World Cup in Bhubaneswar. [6]
Since his debut, Pieter van Straaten has been a regular fixture in the national squad. [4] He won his first major medal with the senior team in 2019 at the FIH Series Finals in Le Touquet, taking home a gold medal. [7] [4]
He was a member of the national team at the 2021 EuroHockey Championships in Amsterdam, [8] and was also named in the French squad for the 2021–22 FIH Pro League. [4]