Leo Klein Gebbink (born 9 January 1968 in
Zelhem
Zelhem is a town in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It has approximately 11,000 inhabitants. Zelhem is located in the municipality of Bronckhorst, about 7 km northeast of Doetinchem.
Zelhem was a separate municipality until 2005, when it ...
,
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 ...
) is a former
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 ...
midfield player from
The Netherlands
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, who represented his native country in two consecutive
Summer Olympics
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(1992 and 1996).
At his last appearance in
Atlanta
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, Georgia, the midfielder won the gold medal with the
Dutch national team. A former player of
Kampong
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, he is married to the Dutch former field hockey international
Jeannette Lewin
Jeannette Marianne Lewin (born 27 February 1972 in Vianen, South Holland) is a former field hockey midfield player from the Netherlands, who played a total number of 114 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she sco ...
. He earned a total number of 143 caps, scoring eight goals for the Netherlands during the 1990s.
References
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Dutch Olympic Committee
1968 births
Living people
People from Bronckhorst
Male field hockey midfielders
Dutch male field hockey players
Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands
Field hockey players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
1998 Men's Hockey World Cup players
Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
SV Kampong players
Olympic medalists in field hockey
Sportspeople from Gelderland
20th-century Dutch people
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