Sébastien Dockier (born 28 December 1989) is a Belgian

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player who plays as a forward for Dutch Hoofdklasse club Pinoké. Dockier comes from a real hockey family; not only his father and sister but even aunts and cousins have been playing field hockey.

Club career

During his youth, he played for Royal Beerschot THC, where he played in the first team until 2014, when he left to play for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. After three seasons with Den Bosch, he went back to his former club. He played there for one season before returning to the Netherlands to play for Den Bosch again. In June 2020, he left Den Bosch and joined Pinoké for the 2020–21 season. In his third season at Pinoké, he won the national title which was the first league title for Pinoké.

International career

He became European vice-champion with

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at the 2013 EuroHockey Championships on home ground in Boom and at the 2017 EuroHockey Championships in

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, Netherlands. He was a part of the Belgian squad which won the silver medal at the

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. He was selected for the

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, which was his second

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. On 25 May 2021, he was selected in the squad for the 2021 EuroHockey Championship. During the start of the 2023–24 season, he was dropped from the national training squad for the

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Honours

International

;Belgium *

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; silver medal:

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

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* FIH Pro League: 2020–21

Club

;Pinoké *

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: 2022–23 * Euro Hockey League: 2023–24

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* 1989 births Living people Belgian male field hockey players Male field hockey forwards 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 Den Bosch players Belgian expatriate field hockey players Sportspeople from Bonheiden Royal Beerschot THC players Men's Belgian Hockey League players Men's Hoofdklasse Hockey players Olympic gold medalists for Belgium Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics 2023 Men's FIH Hockey World Cup players Pinoké players 21st-century Belgian sportsmen {{Belgium-fieldhockey-bio-stub