Jan van Gooswilligen
Personal information | |
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Born | 12 July 1935 Baarn, the Netherlands |
Died | 19 December 2008 (aged 73) De Wijk, Drenthe, Netherlands |
Height | 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in) |
Weight | 83 kg (183 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Field hockey |
Club | SCHC, Bilthoven |
Jan Cornelis van Gooswilligen (12 July 1935 – 19 December 2008) was a hockey player from the Netherlands.
International career[]
He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics, where his team finished in ninth and seventh place, respectively. Between 1958 and 1964 he played 58 , 38 of them as the team captain.[1]
Van Gooswilligen was selected for the national team in 1958. Next year, he and three other players left the team in protest of unfair selection processes; as a result a new group of selectors was appointed. The same year he won a with his club SCHC.
Retirement and Philanthropy[]
After retiring from hockey, van Gooswilligen became a urologist and occasionally competed in cycling at the national level.
Together with his wife Ammy, he founded an advisory center for sports medicine.[1][2]
References[]
- ^ Jump up to: a b Jan van Gooswilligen Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. sports-reference.com
- ^ Johanna Gröne (23 July 2012) Jan van Gooswilligen Archived 21 February 2014 at the Wayback Machine. medischcontact.artsennet.nl
- 1935 births
- 2008 deaths
- Dutch male field hockey players
- Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands
- People from Baarn
- Dutch urologists
- Dutch sports physicians
- Dutch field hockey biography stubs