Rius Theo "Dick" Esser (9 July 1918 – 8 March 1979) was a Dutch

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shooting ...

player who competed in the

1948 Summer Olympics The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...

and in the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

. He was born in Makassar, Dutch East Indies. In 1948 he was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all seven matches as forward. Four years later he won the silver medal as part of the Dutch team. He played all three matches as forward. Esser died in

Leiden Leiden (; in English and archaic Dutch also Leyden) is a city and municipality in the province of South Holland, Netherlands. The municipality of Leiden has a population of 119,713, but the city forms one densely connected agglomeration wi ...

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on DatabaseOlympics.com 1918 births 1979 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1948 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Sportspeople from Makassar Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub