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| Full name | Augustin Jean Meurmans | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born |
(1997-05-29) 29 May 1997 (age 27) Ottignies, Belgium | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current club | Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| 2007–2015 | LARA Wavre HC | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2015–present | Racing | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Caps | Goals | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Belgium U21 | 14 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2017–present | Belgium | 74 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Last updated on: 3 October 2024 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Augustin Jean Meurmans (born 29 May 1997) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a midfielder for Racing Club de Bruxelles and the Belgium national team.
International career
He was part of the Belgian selection that placed for the final at the 2017 European Championship in Amstelveen. Initially, he was not selected for the 2018 World Cup but he replaced John-John Dohmen later in the tournament who had to withdraw injured. He played in Belgium's last four matches of the tournament, which they eventually won by defeating the Netherlands in the final. In November 2021 he announced he would take a break from the national team to focus on his studies. After the 2024 Summer Olympics he returned in the national team training group.
Honours
- Racing
- Belgium
References
- "World League - we ontmoetten de jonge Augustin Meurmans op de eerste rustdag" (in Dutch). Hockeynews.be. Retrieved 10 July 2017.
- "België - Rabo EuroHockey Championships 2017" (in Dutch). Rabo EuroHockey Championships 2017. Archived from the original on 23 August 2017. Retrieved 27 August 2017.
- "Pech voor Red Lions: John-John Dohmen verlaat WK hockey door bronchitis". hln.be (in Dutch). 7 December 2018. Retrieved 14 April 2019.
- "Augustin Meurmans stopt (tijdelijk) bij Red Lions en focust op studies". sporza.be (in Dutch). Sporza. 6 November 2021. Retrieved 6 November 2021.
- Demaret, Philippe (11 September 2024). "Red Lions : le nouveau groupe". okey.lalibre.be (in French). Retrieved 3 October 2024.
- Thys, Werner (8 May 2022). "Racing verovert eerste hockeytitel sinds 1941". hln.be (in Dutch). Het Laatste Nieuws. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
External links
- Augustin Meurmans at the International Hockey Federation
- Augustin Meurmans at Olympedia
- Augustin Meurmans at Team Belgium (in Dutch)
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- 1997 births
- Living people
- People from Ottignies-Louvain-la-Neuve
- Belgian male field hockey players
- Male field hockey midfielders
- 2018 Men's Hockey World Cup players
- Men's Belgian Hockey League players
- Royal Racing Club Bruxelles players
- Field hockey players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic field hockey players for Belgium
- Olympic gold medalists for Belgium
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Sportspeople from Walloon Brabant
- 21st-century Belgian sportsmen
- Belgian field hockey biography stubs