Peter van Noord (born 3 February 1963) is a Dutch retired basketball player and current coach. As a player, Van Noord was a power forward. Van Noord was a member of the Netherlands national basketball team and played with them at the

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and at FIBA EuroBasket in

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and

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. In his professional career, he played for several teams in the Netherlands including

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and Flamingo's Haarlem. Van Noord started his coaching career in 2004, with the Netherlands Under-18 and later the Under-16 team. In 2005, he coached his first professional team with

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in Belgium. Between 2017 and 2023, Van Noord was the head coach of the

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