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Rob Gerard Marie Derikx (born 25 August 1982 in
Den Bosch s-Hertogenbosch (), colloquially known as Den Bosch (), is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Netherlands with a population of 160,783. It is the capital of ...
,
North Brabant North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to ...
) is a
field hockey Field hockey (or simply referred to as hockey in some countries where ice hockey is not popular) is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with 11 players in total, made up of 10 field players and a goalk ...
player from the
Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...
. He won silver medal with the Dutch national squad at the
2004 Summer Olympics The 2004 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXVIII Olympiad (), and officially branded as Athens 2004 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 13 to 29 August 2004 in Athens, Greece. The Games saw 10,625 athletes ...
in
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. The midfielder made his debut on April 18, 2001 in a friendly match against
Germany Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany, is a country in Central Europe. It lies between the Baltic Sea and the North Sea to the north and the Alps to the south. Its sixteen States of Germany, constituent states have a total popu ...
. The score for that match was 2-3. He played for
Stichtse Cricket en Hockey Club Stichtsche Cricket en Hockey Club, commonly known as SCHC, is a Dutch professional sports club based in Bilthoven, Utrecht. The club was founded on 22 November 1906. The club is best known for its field hockey department but it also has a rugby uni ...
in the Dutch League (''Hoofdklasse'') after a long time with
HC Den Bosch Hockeyclub 's-Hertogenbosch, also known as Den Bosch, is a Dutch professional field hockey club based in 's-Hertogenbosch, North Brabant. It was founded on 14 July 1937. The first teams (men and women) both compete on the highest level of the Dutc ...
. His older brother, Geert-Jan, was also a member of the Dutch field hockey squad. In 2003 Rob was nominated by the
International Hockey Federation The International Hockey Federation, commonly known by the acronym FIH, is the international governing body of field hockey and indoor field hockey. Its headquarters are in Lausanne, Switzerland. FIH is responsible for field hockey's major int ...
(FIH) for the Talent of the Year Award.


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* 1982 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Field hockey players from 's-Hertogenbosch Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics SCHC players HC Den Bosch players 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub