Xan de Waard
 De Waard in 2014 | |||||||||
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| Born | 8 November 1995 Renkum, Netherlands | ||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | ||||||||
| Weight | 55 kg (121 lb) | ||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||
| Club | SCHC | ||||||||
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Medal record | |||||||||
Xan de Waard (born 8 November 1995) is a Dutch field hockey player.[1][2] She received the FIH Player of the Year Award two times in her career, in 2023 and 2025.[3][4]
De Waard made her debut for the Netherlands national field hockey team on 4 February 2013 in a match against Australia. In that same year, she was also selected for the Hockey World League and subsequently included in the final squad for the 2014 World Cup in The Hague. With the Dutch national team, where she usually plays as a midfielder,[1] De Waard became a two-time Olympic champion (2020, 2024), a three-time world champion (2014, 2018, 2022) and a four-time European champion (2017, 2019, 2023, 2025).[1] In 2023, she became captain of the Dutch team, after having shared the captaincy with Pien Sanders and Marloes Keetels the year before.
De Waard has played over 230 international matches for the Dutch national team.[1]
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 "Xan de Waard". hockey.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 22 November 2025.
- ↑ "Player detail - Hockey World Cup 2014". Koninklijke Nederlandse Hockey Bond. Archived from the original on 27 July 2014. Retrieved 27 July 2014.
- ↑ "Xan de Waard beste hockeyster ter wereld, Blaak beste keeper". nos.nl (in Dutch). 19 December 2023.
- ↑ "Boon, De Waard crowned FIH Players of the Year". insidethegames.biz. 2025-11-22. Retrieved 2025-11-22.
External links
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- Xan de Waard at the International Hockey Federation
- Xan de Waard at Olympics.com
- Xan de Waard at Olympedia
- Xan de Waard at InterSportStats
- Xan de Waard at TeamNL (in Dutch)
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- 1995 births
- Living people
- Dutch women's field hockey players
- People from Renkum
- Field hockey players from Gelderland
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands
- Women's field hockey midfielders
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Stichtsche Cricket en Hockey Club players
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Women's Hoofdklasse Hockey players
- 21st-century Dutch sportswomen