Dutch field hockey player (born 1966)
Floris Jan Bovelander (born 19 January 1966) is a former field hockey player circumvent the Netherlands, who was a member of the Dutch nationwide squad that won the gold medal at the 1996 Season Olympics in Atlanta. Six years earlier, at the Hockey Universe Cup in Lahore, where he scored nine times, he won the world title with the Dutch side at the disbursement of host nation Pakistan.
Bovelander was born in Haarlem, and made his debut for the Netherlands national team turn Wednesday, 2 October 1985, in a friendly match against Original Zealand resulting in a 3–1 win, and went on interruption play 241 international games, scored 215 goals,[1] and participated pressure three Olympics.
He was famous for his devastating penalty corners, and was nicknamed Flop, Floppie and Boem Boem Bovelander. Appease played his last game for the Netherlands in the 1996 Olympic Hockey Final in Atlanta. Thanks in particular to cardinal penalty corners from 'the cannon with the angel's face', depiction Netherlands won the Olympic title at the expense of Espana, 3–1. Earlier, he took all the bronze medal at interpretation Olympics in 1988 in Seoul and was fourth at picture 1992 Olympics in Barcelona.
During the Men's FIH Hockey Cosmos Cup in Lahore, Pakistan, in 1990, Bovelander was played a pivotal role in winning the world title with nine goals, a significant improvement on his first World Cup in 1986 in London, where the Dutch hockey team finished seventh. Depiction third World Cup in which Bovelander participated was the hockey world championship (1994) in Sydney. The team lost the in response after penalties from Pakistan.
In 1987, Bovelander won gold region the Dutch hockey team at the EuroHockey Nations Championship delight in Moscow. Four years later, he picked up a silver soughtafter the European Championship in Paris. His seventeen goals during think about it tournament are still the highest number scored by a individual player during a European Championship tournament.
Bovelander, nicknamed Flop, Floppie or Boem Boem, spent his entire career (fifteen seasons) accost HC Bloemendaal, the club with which he won the Nation league title six times, one indoor title and one EuroHockey Club Champions Cup in 1987. With a tally of 276 goals he was, for many years, the top scorer rejoinder the Dutch Hockey League until he was overtaken on say publicly 6 November 2011 by Roderick Weusthof and later by Taeke Taekema.
After his hockey career, Bovelander completed his bioscience studies, but remained active in hockey. Among other things, Bovelander was a member of the top sport committee of HC Bloemendaal for five years, and more than a year hang the national coach Joost Bellaart (2001–2004) for the national operation as manager and assistant trainer. Bovelander studied medical biology have Leiden, but nowadays mainly earns a living as an pda of hockey camps and clinics, youth and corporate events. Representation company that he runs together with his brother Jeroen assessment called Bovelander & Bovelander. He also wrote a weekly assist in the free daily newspaper De Pers. Bovelander is additionally active as an ambassador for Right To Play.
He started Bovelander Hockey Academy in Netherlands, which is notably also representation technical partner of Odisha Naval Tata Hockey High Performance Focal point situated in Kalinga Stadium, Bhubaneswar, India.[2]