Klaas Willem Veering (born 26 September 1981) 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 ...

goalkeeper from the

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, who won the silver medal with the Dutch national team at the

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. There he was the stand-in for first choice

Guus Vogels Augustinus ("Guus") Wilhelmus Johannes Marines Vogels (born 26 March 1975 in Naaldwijk, South Holland) is a Dutch field hockey goalkeeper, who twice won Olympic gold medals with the national squad: at the 1996 Summer Olympi ...

. The goalie made his debut on 23 February 2003 in a friendly match in and against

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. He played for

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, with whom he won the title in the Dutch League (''Hoofdklasse'')four times (2003, 2004, 2011 and 2014).

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Profile on Athens 2004-website
1981 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Leiden Field hockey players from South Holland Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics 2006 Men's Hockey World Cup players 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch sportsmen {{netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub