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 Marc Delissen |
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| Men's Field Hockey | ||
Competitor for the  Netherlands |
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| Olympic Games | ||
| Gold | 1996 Atlanta | Team Competition |
| Bronze | 1988 Seoul | Team Competition |
| World Cup | ||
| Gold | 1990 Lahore | Team Competition |
Marcus ("Marc") Johannes Elisabeth Leopold Delissen (born January 14, 1965 in Amsterdam, Noord-Holland) is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who captained the Dutch national squad that won the golden medal at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Six years earlier, at the Hockey World Cup in Lahore, he was also a member of the Holland side that won the title at the expense of host nation Pakistan.
Delissen played 261 international matches for The Netherlands, scored 98 goals and participated in three Olympics. He made his debut when he was nineteen years old, on October 21, 1984, in a friendly match against Ireland in London. With his club HGC from Wassenaar Delissen became Dutch champion twice, in 1990 and 1996.
He retired after the Atlanta Olympics, but returned for the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he assisted headcoach Maurits Hendriks and Holland once again became olympic champion. Delissen later on coached his former club HGC for three years (2002-2005) in the Dutch Premier League, called Hoofdklasse. He's a practising lawyer in The Hague.
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