Willem ("Wim") van Heel (27 September 1922 in

The Hague The Hague ( ) is the capital city of the South Holland province of the Netherlands. With a population of over half a million, it is the third-largest city in the Netherlands. Situated on the west coast facing the North Sea, The Hague is the c ...

– 3 October 1972 in

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) was 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 who competed in the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and officially branded as London 1948, were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus cau ...

and in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics (, ), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad (, ) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952, were an international multi-sport event held from 19 July to 3 August 1952 in Helsinki, Finland. After Japan declared in ...

. In 1948 he was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all seven matches as forward. Four years later he won the silver medal as part of the Dutch team. He played all three matches as forward.

External links

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Willem van Heel at databaseOlympics.com
1922 births 1972 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Field hockey players from The Hague Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub