Robbert Huib Kemperman (; born 24 June 1990) is a Dutch

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player who plays as a midfielder for

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club

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. He played a total of 228 matches for the

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and scored 52 goals. He played in three

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and three

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International career

At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the

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in the men's tournament, where he won a silver medal. He made his debut for the national team in 2008, with just 17 years and 111 days of age, he is the second-youngest debutant ever in de Dutch national hockey team. In 2018, Kemperman played in his third

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, where they won the silver medal. Due to his decision to play in the 2019 Malaysia Hockey League, he was not selected for the 2019 Pro League. After the 2019 EuroHockey Championships he returned in the national team for the FIH Olympic Qualifier against

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. In June 2023 he announced he would retire from the national team after not having played internationally since the 2020 Summer Olympics.

Club career

Born in

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, he started playing hockey when he was 5 at the local hockey club RKHV Union. In 2005 he went to HC 's-Hertogenbosch where he made his debut for the first team when he was just 15 years old. After his years at 's-Hertogenbosch, he went to Rot-Weiss Köln in

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in 2010. He played there for two seasons before returning to the Netherlands, where he joined his current club SV Kampong. In 2016 he won the 2015–16 Euro Hockey League with Kampong and then he won two consecutive Dutch national titles in 2017 and 2018. In the winter of 2019, he played in Malaysia for UniKL in the Malaysia Hockey League. In December 2021 it was announced he will leave Kampong after ten seasons and will play for

from the summer of 2022 onwards.

Personal life

Kemperman is in a relationship with former Dutch field hockey international Sophie Polkamp.

Honours

Club

;Kampong *

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: 2015–16 *

: 2016–17, 2017–18 ;UniKL * Malaysia Hockey League: 2019

Netherlands

* EuroHockey Championship:

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* 1990 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Male field hockey midfielders 2010 Men's Hockey World Cup players 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 Sportspeople from Nijmegen Field hockey players from Gelderland Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics SV Kampong players Rot-Weiss Köln players HC Den Bosch players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Men's Feldhockey Bundesliga players Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club players 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub