Jan van Gooswilligen

Jan van Gooswilligen

Jan van Gooswilligen in 1963
Personal information
Born 12 July 1935
Baarn, the Netherlands
Died 19 December 2008 (aged 73)
De Wijk, Drenthe, Netherlands
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2 in)
Weight 83 kg (183 lb)
Sport
Sport Field hockey
Club SCHC, Bilthoven

Jan Cornelis van Gooswilligen (12 July 1935 – 19 December 2008) was a field hockey player from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics, where his team finished in ninth and seventh place, respectively. Between 1958 and 1964 he played 58 international matches, 38 of them as the team captain.[1]

Van Gooswilligen was selected for the national team in 1958. Next year, he and three other players left the team in protest of unfair selection processes; as a result a new group of selectors was appointed. The same year he won a national title with his club SCHC. After retiring from hockey, van Gooswilligen became a urologist and occasionally competed in cycling at the national level. Together with his wife Ammy, he founded an advisory center for sports medicine.[1][2]

References

  1. 1 2 Jan van Gooswilligen. sports-reference.com
  2. Johanna Gröne (23 July 2012) Jan van Gooswilligen. medischcontact.artsennet.nl
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