Alexander Baart (; born 30 April 1988) is a Dutch

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player of Belgian descent who plays as a defender or midfielder for Belgian club

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Club career

He started playing at the age of 6 at Royal Antwerp HC in Belgium and in his final season with them in 2007 won the Belgian national title. As of the 2007-2008 season he was playing for the Dutch club

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 N ...

. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 he won 3 consecutive Dutch national titles with his club. And in 2015 he also won the

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with his club. On a club level he also represented the

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in the first three seasons of the

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as well as in 2017. In the European club season of 2017–18, he played for

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. As of the 2017–18 season, he played for Braxgata in the Belgian club competition. In January 2020 it was announced he would return to

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to play for Oranje Zwart's successor Oranje-Rood in the 2020–21 season. After two seasons back in Eindhoven he returned to Belgium to play for his first club

International career

As a junior player, he played for the Belgian national team Boys Under 16 and won the European title with them. Later on, he switched to the Dutch national teams and won European silver and gold medals for the Dutch under-21 team and the silver medal at the Junior World Championship. He played his first official match for the senior Dutch national men's team in 2007 against

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. He is the only player to be selected for the Dutch national team without ever having played in the Dutch competition prior to his debut. At the

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, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament, winning the silver medal. With the national team, he won a gold medal in the first Hockey World League in

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, silver at the

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that same year and a gold medal in 2015 at the European Championship. He participated in the Rio Olympics in 2016 where he made the semi-final. In August 2017 he extended his European title in Amsterdam beating his other homeland Belgium in the final. 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.

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 ...

* Hockey World League:

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Club

Antwerp * Belgian Hockey League: 2006–07 Oranje Zwart *

: 2014–15 * Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey, Hoofdklasse: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16 Real Club de Polo * Copa del Rey de Hockey Hierba, Copa del Rey: 2017

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Baart, Sander 1988 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Belgian male field hockey players Male field hockey defenders Male field hockey midfielders 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 Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Sportspeople from Edegem Medalists at the 2012 Summer Olympics Oranje Zwart players Real Club de Polo de Barcelona players Dutch expatriate field hockey players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players División de Honor de Hockey Hierba players Men's Belgian Hockey League players HC Oranje-Rood players Uttar Pradesh Wizards players 21st-century Dutch sportsmen 21st-century Belgian sportsmen Braxgata HC players Men's Euro Hockey League–winning players