 Baart with the silver medal at the 2012 Summer Olympics | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Alexander Baart | ||
| Born | (1988-04-30)30 April 1988 (age 37) Edegem, Belgium | ||
| Playing position | Defender / Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Antwerp | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1994–2004 | Antwerp | ||
| Senior career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 2004–2007 | Antwerp | ||
| 2007–2016 | Oranje Zwart | ||
| 2013–2015 | →Uttar Pradesh Wizards | ||
| 2016–2017 | Real Club de Polo | ||
| 2017 | →Uttar Pradesh Wizards | ||
| 2017–2020 | Braxgata | ||
| 2020–2022 | Oranje-Rood | ||
| 2022–present | Antwerp | ||
| National team | |||
| Years | Team | Caps | Goals |
| 2007–2021 | Netherlands | 193 | (6) |
| Last updated on: 23 March 2022 | |||
Alexander Baart (Dutch pronunciation:[ˈsɑndərˈbaːrt]; born 30 April 1988) is a Dutchfield hockey player of Belgian descent who plays as a defender or midfielder for Belgian clubAntwerp.[1]
He started playing at the age of 6 at Royal Antwerp HC in Belgium and in his final season with them in 2007 won the Belgian national title.[2] As of the 2007-2008 season he was playing for the Dutch clubOranje Zwart. In 2014, 2015 and 2016 he won 3 consecutiveDutch national titles with his club. And in 2015 he also won theEuro Hockey League with his club.[citation needed]
On a club level he also represented theUttar Pradesh Wizards in the first three seasons of theHockey India League as well as in 2017. In the European club season of 2017–18, he played forReal Club de Polo de Barcelona. As of the 2017–18 season, he played for Braxgata in the Belgian club competition. In January 2020 it was announced he would return toEindhoven to play for Oranje Zwart's successorOranje-Rood in the 2020–21 season.[3] After two seasons back in Eindhoven he returned to Belgium to play for his first clubAntwerp.[4]
As a junior player, he played for the Belgian national team Boys Under 16 and won the European title with them. Later on, he switched to the Dutch national teams and won European silver and gold medals for theDutch under-21 team and the silver medal at theJunior World Championship.
He played his first official match for thesenior Dutch national men's team in 2007 againstSouth Korea. He is the only player to be selected for the Dutch national team without ever having played in the Dutch competition prior to his debut. At the2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in themen's tournament, winning the silver medal.[5][6]
With the national team, he won a gold medal in the firstHockey World League in2014, silver at theWorld Cup that same year and a gold medal in 2015 at the European Championship. He participated in the Rio Olympics in 2016 where he made the semi-final. In August 2017 he extended his European title in Amsterdam beating his other homeland Belgium in the final. In June 2019, he was selected in the Netherlands squad for the2019 EuroHockey Championship.[7] They won the bronze medal by defeatingGermany 4–0.[8]
Netherlands[9]
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Oranje Zwart[3]
Real Club de Polo
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