Anna Maria Bernadette "Det" de Beus (18 February 1958 – 21 July 2013) in 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 ...

. Born in

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, she was the first goalkeeper in women's

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to wear a mask. A player from

Eindhovense Mixed Hockey Club The Eindhovense Mixed Hockey Club (acronym: EMHC) was a Dutch field hockey club, which was located in Eindhoven, North Brabant. The club was founded on 14 October 1921, and had about 1,000 members. This made it the second biggest club of the city, ...

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, De Beus played in goal for the

between 1978 and 1988. She played 105 caps for her country and was part of the gold medal-winning Olympic team in the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...

in Los Angeles. She retired from the sport at the end of Olympic Games in Seoul in September 1988 after winning the bronze medal by beating Great Britain 3–1. She died of

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Rijswijk Rijswijk (), formerly known as Ryswick ( ) in English, is a town and municipality in the western Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. Its population was 59.642 in 2024, and it has an area of , of which is water. The municipality also i ...

in July 2013.Oud-hockeyster EHMC Det de Beus overleden

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Dutch Hockey Federation
1958 births 2013 deaths Dutch female field hockey players Female field hockey goalkeepers Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Field hockey players from Utrecht (city) Deaths from cancer in the Netherlands Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub