Jan Willem van Erven Dorens (born 8 November 1934) is a retired

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 from the

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. He competed at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics ( it, Giochi Olimpici estivi del 1960), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad ( it, Giochi della XVII Olimpiade) and commonly known as Rome 1960 ( it, Roma 1960), were an international multi-sport event held ...

where his team finished in ninth place. He was the Olympic flag bearer for the Netherlands at those Games. Van Erven Dorens has an elder sister, Marguérite, and a younger brother

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, an amateur golfer. Their father, Jan Frederik, was an architect, rower and hockey goalkeeper.

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* 1934 births Living people Dutch male field hockey players Field hockey players at the 1960 Summer Olympics Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players from Amsterdam 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub