Laura ("Laurien") Eveline Gales-Willemse (born 26 March 1962 in

Haarlem Haarlem (; predecessor of ''Harlem'' in English) is a city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is the capital of the province of North Holland. Haarlem is situated at the northern edge of the Randstad, one of the most populated metropoli ...

North Holland North Holland ( nl, Noord-Holland, ) is a province of the Netherlands in the northwestern part of the country. It is located on the North Sea, north of South Holland and Utrecht, and west of Friesland and Flevoland. In November 2019, it had a ...

) is a former 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 ...

defender, who won the golden medal with the National Women's Team at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

. She played club hockey for

NMHC Nijmegen Nijmeegse Mixed Hockey Club Nijmegen, commonly known as Nijmegen, is a Dutch field hockey club based in Nijmegen, Gelderland. It was founded on 15 September 1906 and it has a total number of 1,783 members. The first men and women's teams compete ...

and

HGC HGC can stand for: * Human Genetics Commission *Hercules Graphics Card * H.O.C. Gazellen-Combinatie, a Dutch field hockey club * HGC Global Communications, an internet service provider in Hong Kong * HGC (field hockey) H.O.C. Gazellen-Combinatie, ...

from

Wassenaar Wassenaar (; population: in ) is a municipality and town located in the province of South Holland, on the western coast of the Netherlands. An affluent suburb of The Hague, Wassenaar lies north of that city on the N44/A44 highway near the Nort ...

. Four years later in

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she captured the bronze medal with the national side. From 1981 to 1988 she played a total number of 63 international matches for Holland, in which she scored eleven goals. Willemse retired after 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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1962 births Living people Dutch female field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1984 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 1988 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Haarlem Field hockey players from North Holland Olympic medalists in field hockey {{netherlands-fieldhockey-bio-stub Medalists at the 1988 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 1984 Summer Olympics NMHC Nijmegen players HGC (field hockey) players 20th-century Dutch women 21st-century Dutch women