Diegomar Raymundo "Diego" Markwell (born August 8, 1980 in

Willemstad Willemstad ( , ; ; en, William Town, italic=yes) is the capital city of Curaçao, an island in the southern Caribbean Sea that forms a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. It was the capital of the Netherlands Antilles pr ...

, Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles) is a Dutch

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for Curaçao Neptunus of the

Honkbal Hoofdklasse The Honkbal Hoofdklasse ( Dutch for ''Major League Baseball'') is the highest level of professional baseball in the Netherlands. It is an eight-team league that plays a 42-game schedule and is overseen by the Royal Netherlands Baseball and Softba ...

. Markwell represented the

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at the 2004 Summer Olympics in

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, where he and his team finished sixth. Markwell was also named to the Dutch roster for the

2005 European Baseball Championship The 2005 European Baseball Championship was won by the Netherlands. It was held in the Czech Republic.The top 4 qualified for the 2007 Baseball World Cup. Round 1 Pool A Standings Source: http://catcher.home.xs4all.nl Pool B Standings Source: ...

, 2006 World Baseball Classic, 2006 Intercontinental Cup,

2007 European Baseball Championship The 2007 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament held from September 7 to 16, between national baseball teams of the Confederation of European Baseball. The tournament was held in Barcelona, Spain and served as the ...

, 2008 Summer Olympics,

2009 World Baseball Classic The 2009 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international baseball competition. It began on 5 9 and finished 5 26. Unlike in 2006, when the round-robin format of the first two rounds led to some eliminations being decided by run-difference tie ...

2010 European Baseball Championship The 2010 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball competition held in Germany from July 23 to August 1, 2010. The tournament was originally set to be held in 2009 with Russia as host. In March 2008, the Confederation of Europe ...

, 2010 Intercontinental Cup,

2011 Baseball World Cup The 2011 Baseball World Cup (BWC) was the 39th international Men's amateur baseball tournament. The tournament was sanctioned by the International Baseball Federation, which titled it the Amateur World Series from the 1938 tournament through the ...

2013 World Baseball Classic The 2013 World Baseball Classic (WBC) was an international professional baseball competition, held from March 2 to March 19, 2013. This was the third iteration of the WBC, following the two previous tournaments, held in 2006 and 2009. Unlike t ...

2013 World Port Tournament The 2013 World Port Tournament was an international baseball competition held at the DOOR Neptunus Familiestadion in Rotterdam, the Netherlands from June 30 through July 7, 2013. It was the 12th edition of the tournament and featured teams from C ...

, ,

2014 European Baseball Championship The 2014 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament held in the Czech Republic and Germany. The defending champion Italy lost in the final to the Netherlands, who became champion for the 21st time. Qualification T ...

, 2015 World Port Tournament,

2015 WBSC Premier12 The 2015 WBSC Premier12 was an international baseball championship sponsored by the World Baseball Softball Confederation (WBSC), the inaugural event of the WBSC Premier12. It was held from November 8 to 21 in Taiwan and Japan. The South Korean ...

2016 Haarlem Baseball Week The 2016 Haarlem Baseball Week was an International Baseball Federation, international baseball competition held at the Pim Mulier, Pim Mulier Stadium in Haarlem, the Netherlands from 15–24 July 2016. It was the 28th edition of the tournament. ...

, , and the

2016 European Baseball Championship The 2016 European Baseball Championship was an international baseball tournament organized by Confederation of European Baseball. The 2016 European Championship was held from September 9 to 18, 2016 in Hoofddorp, Netherlands. It was organized by t ...

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''Honkbalsite , Honkbalnieuws uit Nederland'' He played for Team Netherlands in the 2019 European Baseball Championship, and at the Africa/Europe 2020 Olympic Qualification tournament in Italy in September 2019.

References

External links

Markwell at the Dutch Olympic Archive
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