Ronald Leendert Brouwer (born 24 April 1979) is a Dutch former

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 who played as a forward. He won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the

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. He is the cousin of

Matthijs Brouwer Matthijs Christian Brouwer (born 1 July 1980 in Raamsdonk, North Brabant) is a field hockey player from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. The striker made his debut on ...

. He played a total of 220 games for the Dutch national team in which he scored 80 goals.

Club career

He played for

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and

HC Bloemendaal Hockey Club Bloemendaal (), commonly known as Bloemendaal, is a Dutch professional field hockey club based in Bloemendaal, North Holland. It was established on 26 April 1895, and is one of the oldest field hockey clubs in the Netherlands. Originall ...

in the Dutch highest division. Bloemendaal was his last club in the Dutch highest league where he played until 2014. After that he played one year for Dutch second division club

Almere Almere () is a Planned community, planned List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and List of municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of Flevoland, Netherlands across the IJmeer fro ...

before he went to

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to play three years for

Braxgata HC Braxgata Hockey Club, also known as Braxgata, is a Belgian professional sports club club based in Boom. The club is most well known for its field hockey section, with both the first men's and women's teams playing as part of the Belgian Hockey ...

. In 2018 he lengthened his career again by signing for Dutch second division club HC Schaerweijde. He retired from top-level hockey in 2021.

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* 1979 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards 2002 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2008 Summer Olympics 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands People from Hellevoetsluis Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics HGC (field hockey) players HC Bloemendaal players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Men's Belgian Hockey League players Dutch expatriate sportspeople in Belgium Dutch expatriate field hockey players Field hockey players from South Holland Braxgata HC players Men's Euro Hockey League–winning players {{netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub