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Maryse Abendanon

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Maryse Abendanon
Personal information
Born15 November 1966
Amsterdam
Medal record
Women's Field Hockey
Representing the  Netherlands
Champions Trophy
Gold medal – first place 1987 Amstelveen Team
European Nations Cup
Gold medal – first place 1987 London Team

Maryse Abendanon (born 15 November 1966 in Amsterdam) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who earned a total number of seventeen international caps in 1987 for the Dutch women's team, in which she scored four goals. She was a member of the squad that won the inaugural Women's Champions Trophy in 1987.

Biography

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Abendanon grew up in the city of Baarn, Netherlands. In her youth at the Baarnsch Lyceum she played in the national B- and later on A-teams. After her breakthrough as youth-player, she began to play at the highest level at that moment in the national competition. She did this at the hockey-club of Laren, Netherlands.

At the age of 18 she has been selected for 'Jong-Oranje', the Dutch national youth team. She also transfers herself to the Amsterdamsche Hockey & Bandy Club,[1] the Amsterdam hockey-club. She would play by then sixteen times for the Dutch national team.[2] In 1987 she won the Champions Trophy in Amstelveen and the EuroHockey Nations Championship.

After her career, she became a trainer at hockey-clubs in Muiderberg and Baarn,[3] where she still lives and works.

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