Maartje Paumen

Maartje Paumen

Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	19 September 1985 Geleen, Netherlands
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Weight	66 kg (146 lb)
Sport
Country	Netherlands
Sport	Field hockey
Medal record Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team 2012 London Team 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Championship 2006 Madrid 2014 The Hague 2010 Rosario European Championship 2005 Dublin 2009 Amstelveen 2011 Gladbach 2007 Manchester 2015 London 2013 Boom Champions Trophy 2004 Rosario 2005 Canberra 2007 Quilmes 2011 Amstelveen 2010 Nottingham 2016 London 2006 Amstelveen 2009 Sydney 2012 Rosario 2014 Mendoza

Maartje Paumen (born 19 September 1985) is a Dutch field hockey player, who plays as midfielder for Dutch club HC Den Bosch. She also plays for the Netherlands national team and she was part of the Dutch squad that became World Champion at the 2006 Women's Hockey World Cup and which won the 2007 Champions Trophy and the 2011 Champions Trophy.

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing she won an Olympic gold medal with the Dutch national team beating China in the final 2-0. The team kept its Olympic title at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London beating the Argentinian team 2-0 in the final. She scored the second point from a penalty and this was her fourteenth goal at the Olympics, which makes her the top Olympic scorer ever. She was also the Top Scorer of the 2010 Women's Hockey World Cup as well as the 2014 Women's Hockey World Cup. She is openly lesbian.^[1] Paumen has been selected as FIH Player of the Year in 2011 and 2012.

References

1. Misset, Robért (28 June 2011). "'Ik ben nu degene die ik wil zijn'". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). De Persgroep.

External links

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