Julius Theodoor "Jules" Ancion (August 21, 1924 – November 30, 2011) 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 competed at 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

Palembang Palembang () is the capital city of the Indonesian province of South Sumatra. The city proper covers on both banks of the Musi River on the eastern lowland of southern Sumatra. It had a population of 1,668,848 at the 2020 Census. Palembang ...

Dutch East Indies The Dutch East Indies, also known as the Netherlands East Indies ( nl, Nederlands(ch)-Indië; ), was a Dutch colony consisting of what is now Indonesia. It was formed from the nationalised trading posts of the Dutch East India Company, which ...

. He was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played all three matches as halfback.

External links

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Jules Ancion's profile at databaseOlympics
1924 births 2011 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Palembang Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 1952 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub