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

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player who played as a defender. He started playing hockey at HCAS and has since also played for Oranje Zwart and Oranje-Rood. He joined

Rot-Weiss Köln Kölner Tennis- und Hockey-Club Stadion Rot-Weiss e.V., also known as KTHC Stadion Rot-Weiss or simply Rot-Weiss Köln, is a German professional field hockey and tennis club based in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia. The home ground is the Kölner S ...

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 professional field hockey club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. The club was founded on 1 July 2016 as a merger of Oranje Zwart and Eindhovense Mixed Hocke ...

. On 29 January 2020 it was announced he would join

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

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, 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

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van der Weerden announced his retirement from the national team.

Honours

International

;Netherlands *

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2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

* 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,

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Individual

* Olympic top goalscorer:

* Champions Trophy top goalscorer:

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

* Hoofdklasse top goalscorer: 2013–14

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Weerden, Mink van der 1988 births Living people Sportspeople from Geldrop 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 for 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 Dutch expatriate field hockey players Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players Field hockey players from North Brabant Men's Euro Hockey League–winning players