Lieke_van_Wijk

Lieke van Wijk

Lieke van Wijk

Dutch field hockey player (born 1993)

Lieke van Wijk (born 18 September 1993)[1] is a Dutch field hockey player.[2]

In this Dutch name, the surname is van Wijk, not Wijk.
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Career

Club hockey

In the Dutch Hoofdklasse, van Wijk played club hockey until 2019 for Laren. With Laren she won the Hoofdklasse Indoor Hockey in 2018. From the 2019 season she played 3 years for Hurley and from 2022 on she is playing for Pinoké. In the 2022-2023 season, van Wijk became again Hoofdklasse Indoor Hockey champion of the Netherlands together with Pinoké.[3]

National teams

Under–21

Playing for Netherlands junior teams for 4 years, van Wijk won 4 gold medals; two EuroHockey Junior Nations Championships, one Youth Olympic Games and one Junior World Cup.[4]

Indoor

Lieke van Wijk also plays at an international level for the Netherlands Indoor hockey team. With the team, she won gold at the 2016 EuroHockey Indoor Championship,[5] silver at the 2018 EuroHockey Indoor Championship, silver at the 2020 EuroHockey Indoor Championship and again silver at the 2022 EuroHockey Indoor Championship.[6]

At the 2018 Indoor Hockey World Cup van Wijk won silver.[7] Van Wijk won gold at the 2023 Women's FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup.[8]

References

  1. [1]
    "Lieke VAN WIJK". olympic.org. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  2. [2]
    "Lieke van Wijk". hockey.nl. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  3. [3]
    "'Larens vijftal' helpt Pinoké aan primeur". nos.nl (in Dutch). NOS. 28 January 2023. Retrieved 28 January 2023.
  4. [4]
    "van WIJK Lieke". FIH. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  5. [5]
    "2016 EuroHockey Indoor Championship (Women)". FIH. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
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    "Lieke van Wijk: Ik ben extreem trots op dit oranje team". hockey.nl. Retrieved 10 December 2022.
  7. [7]
    "Indoor Hockey World Cup 2018 (Women)". FIH. Retrieved 29 August 2018.
  8. [8]
    "Players of the Netherlands (Women)". FIH. Retrieved 6 February 2023.


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