Maartje Scheepstra (born 1 April 1980) is a Dutch

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. She was born in Papua, Indonesia, and grew up in

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 ...

. She won a silver medal 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 ...

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* 1980 births Living people Dutch female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey People from Papua (province) Sportspeople from Almere Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club players 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch sportswomen {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub