Mink Alphons Louis van der Weerden (; born 19 October 1988) is a Dutch

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player who plays as a defender for German Bundesliga club Rot-Weiss Köln. He started playing hockey at HCAS and has since also played for

Oranje Zwart Mixed Hockeyclub Oranje Zwart was a Dutch professional field hockey club located in Eindhoven, North Brabant, which was founded on 1 September 1933. With around 1,700 members – as of 3 May 2006 – it is one of the biggest clubs in the ...

and Oranje-Rood. He joined Rot-Weiss Köln in the summer of 2020. Van der Weerden made his debut for the national team in 2010 and has since played in three

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, two

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and three

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. He studies

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Club career

Van der Weerden took up field hockey aged 10 in 2000 following his mother at HCAS. Later he moved to Oranje Zwart. After Oranje Zwart merged in 2016 with EMHC he signed a four-year contract for the newly formed club

HC Oranje-Rood Hockeyclub Oranje-Rood (), also known as HC Oranje-Rood or simply Oranje-Rood, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. The club was founded on 1 July 2016 as a merger of Oranje Zwart and EMHC. In May 2019, the first wom ...

. On 29 January 2020 it was announced he would join Rot-Weiss Köln at the end of the season. In the 2021–22 season he won his second

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title in a row.

International career

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the

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in the men's tournament where the Netherlands won silver. A

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specialist, he was credited with the second victory in group play, over

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. He also had a goal in the final against Germany, and ended as the tournament's top scorer with eight goals. In June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the 2019 EuroHockey Championship. They won the bronze medal by defeating

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4–0. After the 2020 Summer Olympics van der Weerden announced his retirement from the national team.

Honours

International

;Netherlands * Olympic silver medal:

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* European Championship:

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* Hockey World League:

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Club

;Oranje Zwart *

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: 2014–15 *

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: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 ;Rot-Weiss Köln *

: 2019–2021, 2021–22

Individual

* Olympic top goalscorer:

* Champions Trophy top goalscorer:

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* Hoofdklasse top goalscorer: 2013–14

References

External links

* {{DEFAULTSORT:Weerden, Mink van der 1988 births Living people People from Geldrop Sportspeople from North Brabant Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Oranje Zwart players HC Oranje-Rood players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Rot-Weiss Köln players Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players