Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel

Carlien Dirkse van den Heuvel is a Dutch field hockey player, born on 16 April 1987, who competed for the Netherlands women's national field hockey team. At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London she played in the women's event and won the gold medal with the Dutch team. She was one of the openly lesbian athletes who won medals at those Games, a fact that Fox News reported in its list of ten LGBT Olympians to medal in London. She is listed by the International Hockey Federation, Olympics.com, Olympedia, InterSportStats and TeamNL, the Dutch Olympic team site.