Bob de Voogd (; born 16 September 1988) is a Dutch

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player who plays as a midfielder or forward for Belgian club Braxgata. He was included to the national team in 2009 and won a silver medal at the 2012 Olympics, placing fourth in 2016.

Club career

De Voogd started playing hockey at his local hockey club HMHC in

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. After the club merged with another Helmond club he started playing for the newly formed club, HC Helmond. He played there until 2004 when he transferred to

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to play in the highest division of Dutch field hockey. In 2007 he transferred to

Oranje Zwart Mixed Hockeyclub Oranje Zwart was a Dutch professional field hockey club located in Eindhoven, North Brabant, which was founded on 1 September 1933. With around 1,700 members – as of 3 May 2006 – it is one of the biggest clubs in the ...

. After Oranje Zwart merged in 2016 with EMHC he started playing for the newly formed club

HC Oranje-Rood Hockeyclub Oranje-Rood (), also known as HC Oranje-Rood or simply Oranje-Rood, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Eindhoven, North Brabant. The club was founded on 1 July 2016 as a merger of Oranje Zwart and EMHC. In May 2019, the first wome ...

. In January 2019, he agreed to play for Braxgata in Belgium from the 2019–20 season onwards.

International career

De Voogd broke his jaw during a friendly match against

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in June 2012, but recovered for the 2012 Olympics. Next year he missed four months of competitions, including the European Championships, because of a foot injury. He was not selected for the 2014 World Championships. However, he did play in the

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, where they won the silver medal. In January 2020 he was dropped from the national team's training squad for the

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Honours

Netherlands *

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* European Championship:

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Hockey World League The Men's FIH Hockey World League was an international field hockey competition organised by the International Hockey Federation. The league also served as a qualifier for the 2014 and 2018 Men's Hockey World Cups and the 2016 Olympic Games. Th ...

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Oranje Zwart *

Euro Hockey League The Euro Hockey League is an annual men's field hockey cup competition organized by the EHF for the very top field hockey clubs in Europe. The competition was launched at the start of the 2007-08 field hockey season when it merged and replaced th ...

: 2014–15 *

Hoofdklasse The Vierde Divisie, formerly known as Hoofdklasse () is the second-highest league of amateur football in the Netherlands, and the fifth tier in general. Background The league is divided into two sections: Saturday and Sunday. This is a result of ...

: 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16

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