Augustin Meurmans
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| Full name | Augustin Jean Meurmans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 29 May 1997 Ottignies, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Field hockey | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Augustin Jean Meurmans (born 29 May 1997) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Racing Club de Bruxelles and the Belgium national team.[1]
International career
He was part of the Belgian selection that placed for the final at the 2017 European Championship in Amstelveen.[2] Initially, he was not selected for the 2018 World Cup but he replaced John-John Dohmen later in the tournament who had to withdraw injured.[3] He played in Belgium's last four matches of the tournament, which they eventually won by defeating the Netherlands in the final. In November 2021 he announced he would take a break from the national team to focus on his studies.[4] After the 2024 Summer Olympics he returned in the national team training group.[5]
Honours
- Racing
- Belgium
References
- ↑ "World League - we ontmoetten de jonge Augustin Meurmans op de eerste rustdag" (in Dutch). Hockeynews.be. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- ↑ "België - Rabo EuroHockey Championships 2017" (in Dutch). Rabo EuroHockey Championships 2017. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- ↑ "Pech voor Red Lions: John-John Dohmen verlaat WK hockey door bronchitis". hln.be (in Dutch). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- ↑ "Augustin Meurmans stopt (tijdelijk) bij Red Lions en focust op studies". sporza.be (in Dutch). Sporza. 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- ↑ Demaret, Philippe (11 September 2024). "Red Lions : le nouveau groupe". okey.lalibre.be (in French). Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- ↑ Thys, Werner (8 May 2022). "Racing verovert eerste hockeytitel sinds 1941". hln.be (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
External links
- Augustin Meurmans at the International Hockey Federation
- Augustin Meurmans at Team Belgium (in Dutch)
- Augustin Meurmans at Olympedia
- Augustin Meurmans at InterSportStats
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Categories:
- 1997 births
- Living people
- People from Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgian men's field hockey players
- Men's field hockey midfielders
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Men's Belgian Hockey League players
- Royal Racing Club Bruxelles players
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for Belgium
- Olympic gold medalists for Belgium
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Sportspeople from Walloon Brabant
- 21st-century Belgian sportsmen
- Belgian field hockey biography stubs
- Belgian Olympic medalist stubs