Ellen Marchien Dubbeldam-Kuipers (born 8 April 1971 in

Hattem Hattem () is a municipality and a town in the eastern Netherlands. The municipality had a population of in . The municipality includes the hamlet of 't Zand. Name origin The name “Hattem” is a typical farmyard name. The exact origin of “H ...

Gelderland Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...

) is a former

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...

forward from the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, who played a total number of 94 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored 32 goals. She made her debut on 17 June 1994 in a friendly against Germany, and won the bronze medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics. Kuipers retired from international competition after the 1998 World Cup in

Utrecht Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Nethe ...

. Post retirement, her interests lie in branding and interior design.

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Dutch Hockey Federation
1971 births Living people People from Hattem Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics Dutch female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics SV Kampong players 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women Sportspeople from Gelderland {{netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub