Arthur Georges Stanislas Henri Van Doren (born 1 October 1994) is a Belgian professional

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player who plays as a defender for Braxgata and the Belgium national team. He is the brother of fellow Belgian international Loic Van Doren. In 2017, he won simultaneously both FIH awards of FIH Player and FIH Rising Star of the Year. At the 2018 Hockey Stars Awards he was named the FIH Player of the Year for the second time in a row.

Club career

He played club hockey in Belgium for KHC Dragons. With this club, he became the national hockey champion in 2011. In 2012, he was honoured with the Golden Stick (category junior male players) by the Belgian Hockey Association. Shortly after he won the FIH player of the year award in 2018, it was announced he would join his current club HC Bloemendaal from the 2018–19 season onwards. In his first season with Bloemendaal, he won his first Dutch national title by winning the championship final against

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. In January 2020, it was announced he extended his stay at Bloemendaal for at least one more season. He won his second league title with Bloemendaal in the 2020–21 season as he was named the best player of the Hoofdklasse season. After six years in the Netherlands he returned to Belgium in 2024 to play for Braxgata where he signed for four seasons.

International career

Van Doren became European champions with the Belgium under-21 squad in 2012. His first selection for the

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was at the age of 17. With Belgium, he became European vice-champion at the 2013 European Championship on home ground in Boom and at the 2017 European Championship in

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, Netherlands. He was a part of the Belgian squad which won the silver medal at the

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. In 2016, he won the FIH Rising Star of the Year award, which he won again in 2017 together with the FIH Player of the Year award. He was a part of the Belgian squad which won Belgium its first

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and European title. In December 2019, he again was nominated for the FIH Player of the Year Award. On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.

Honours

International

;Belgium *

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*Olympic silver medal:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

* EuroHockey Championship:

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

* FIH Pro League: 2020–21 ;Belgium U21 * EuroHockey Junior Championship:

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Club

;Bloemendaal *

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: 2018–19, 2020–21, 2021–22 * Euro Hockey League:

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, 2022–23 ;Dragons * Belgian Hockey League: 2010–11, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18

Individual

* FIH Rising Star of the Year: 2016, 2017 * FIH Player of the Year: 2017, 2018 *Gouden Stick: 2014, 2016, 2017 * EuroHockey Championship Player of the Tournament:

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* FIH Hockey World Cup Best Player:

* Hoofdklasse Player of the Season: 2020–21

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Doren, Arthur 1994 births Living people Field hockey players from Antwerp Belgian male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Field hockey players at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2024 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for Belgium 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic silver medalists for Belgium Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics KHC Dragons players HC Bloemendaal players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Belgian expatriate field hockey players Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Men's Belgian Hockey League players Olympic gold medalists for Belgium Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players 21st-century Belgian sportsmen Braxgata HC players