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Maartje Paumen

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Maartje Yvonne Helene Paumen is a retired Dutch field hockey player, born September 19, 1985, in Geleen, Netherlands, and the all-time top scorer for the Dutch national team with 195 goals in 235 games. She is an Olympic gold medalist from the 2008 Beijing and 2012 London Games and a silver medalist from the 2016 Rio de Janeiro Games, a World Cup champion from 2006 Madrid and 2014 The Hague, and was named FIH Player of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. She was also top scorer at the 2010 and 2014 Women's Hockey World Cups and remains the all-time top scorer in the Dutch national league, the Hoofdklasse.

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1985 1
Birth Date
1985-09-19 1
Nationality
Dutch 1
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  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, birth date
    Maartje Yvonne Helene Paumen (born 19 September 1985) is a former Dutch field hockey player.
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, birth year
    Maartje Yvonne Helene Paumen (born 19 September 1985) is a former Dutch field hockey player.
  • Lead paragraph, first sentence, nationality
    Maartje Yvonne Helene Paumen (born 19 September 1985) is a former Dutch field hockey player.
  • Wikipedia, article summary lead
    Maartje Yvonne Helene Paumen (born 19 September 1985) is a former Dutch field hockey player.
  • Plays: Field Hockey, lead paragraph, plays
    Maartje Yvonne Helene Paumen (born 19 September 1985) is a former Dutch field hockey player.
  • Competed In: 2008 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
    At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, she won an Olympic gold medal with the Dutch national team beating China in the final 2-0.
  • Competed In: 2012 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
    The team kept its Olympic title at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, beating the Argentinian team 2-0 in the final.
  • Competed In: 2016 Summer Olympics, lead paragraph, competed-in
    In the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro she won an Olympic silver medal, after losing to Great Britain in penalty shootouts.
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