Erik Robert Parlevliet (8 June 1964 – 22 June 2007) 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 ci ...

player, who earned a total number of 155 caps, scoring 47 goals.

Life

Parlevliet was born in

Zevenaar Zevenaar () is a municipality and a city in the Gelderland province, in the eastern Netherlands near the border with Germany. Population centres *Angerlo *Babberich *Giesbeek *Lathum *Ooy *Oud-Zevenaar *Zevenaar History The earliest signs of h ...

Gelderland Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...

. With Holland he won the

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in 1990. He was a member of the Dutch national team at the

1988 Summer Olympics The 1988 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XXIV Olympiad () and commonly known as Seoul 1988 ( ko, 서울 1988, Seoul Cheon gubaek palsip-pal), was an international multi-sport event held from 17 September to 2 October ...

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, where the team won a

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. Parlevliet also played for the Dutch in five Champions Trophy competitions. He died in

Rosmalen Rosmalen () is a town in the province of North Brabant, in the south of the Netherlands. The town is located 6 kilometers east of the city of 's-Hertogenbosch (Den Bosch) and has been part of that Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality si ...

, aged 43.

External links

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''In Memoriam: Erik Parlevliet'', Hockey Magazine
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KNHB Profile

External links

* 1964 births 2007 deaths People from Zevenaar Dutch male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics 1990 Men's Hockey World Cup players 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people Sportspeople from Gelderland {{netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub