Tom Alain Boon (born 25 January 1990) is a Belgian professional

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player who plays as a forward for Léopold and the Belgium national team. He won a silver medal at the

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Club career

He started at Royal White Star HC, and after also having played for

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, he played four years for the

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team

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. In 2019, he moved to the 2018–19 Belgian national champions, Léopold, where he signed a contract for five seasons.

International career

Boon made his debut in the

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in 2008. In 2009 he finished fifth with this team at the European Championship in

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and in 2011 they finished fourth at the European Championship in

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. In 2011, he also won the Champions Challenge. With his club Racing Brussels, he became Belgian field hockey champion for five consecutive years (2009-2013). At the

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, he competed for the

in the men's tournament that came fifth. Boon became European silver medalist with

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at the 2013 European Championship on home ground in

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. In spite of his opening goal against

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, Belgium lost the final by 1-3. At the 2016 Olympics, he was part of the Belgium team that on the silver medal. Boon himself scored a goal in the quarter-final. At the 2019 EuroHockey Championship, where Belgium won its first European title, he was the top goalscorer together with three other players with five goals. On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship.

Personal life

Tom Boon was born in a hockey family. His grandmother Jacqueline Ronsmans was a Belgian international player, just like his mother Carine Boon-Coudron and his uncles Eric and Marc Coudron (Belgian record international with 358 games). His sister

Jill Boon Jill Boon (born 13 March 1987) is a Belgian field hockey player. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed with the Belgium women's national field hockey team The Belgium women's national field hockey team is coached by Raoul Ehren. Competitiv ...

has also played Olympic hockey for Belgium.

International goals

:''Scores and results list Belgium's goal tally first.

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* * * * 1990 births Living people Field hockey players from Brussels Belgian male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards Male indoor hockey players Field hockey players at the 2012 Summer Olympics 2014 Men's Hockey World Cup players Field hockey players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players Olympic field hockey players for Belgium Olympic silver medalists for Belgium Olympic medalists in field hockey Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics HC Bloemendaal players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Expatriate field hockey players Belgian expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Men's Belgian Hockey League players Royal Racing Club Bruxelles players Royal Léopold Club players Olympic gold medalists for Belgium Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players {{Belgium-fieldhockey-bio-stub 2018 FIH Indoor Hockey World Cup players