Jan Hendrik "Roepie" Kruize (January 18, 1925 in Heemstede

Heemstede

Heemstede is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.-History :Heemstede formed around the Castle Heemstede that was built on the Spaarne River around 1286. Before 1296, Floris V, Count of Holland, granted Heemstede as a fiefdom to Reinier of Holy...

 – February 14, 1992 in Den Haag) is a former field hockey

Field hockey

Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...

 player from The Netherlands, who was one of the Netherlands

Netherlands

The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...

's most famous players in the years following World War II

World War II

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. He won the bronze medal with the Dutch Men's Team at the 1948 Summer Olympics

1948 Summer Olympics

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 in London

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, followed by the silver medal, four years later in Helsinki

Helsinki

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.

Born in Heemstede

Heemstede

Heemstede is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland.-History :Heemstede formed around the Castle Heemstede that was built on the Spaarne River around 1286. Before 1296, Floris V, Count of Holland, granted Heemstede as a fiefdom to Reinier of Holy...

, Noord-Holland, Kruize scored the impressive amount of 69 goals in just 56 international matches. None of his three sons, all of them field hockey players for the Netherlands (Hans

Hans Kruize

Hans Tjebbe Kruize is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics: in Montreal and in Los Angeles . He ended up in fourth and in sixth place with the Dutch National Men's Team...

, Hidde

Hidde Kruize

Jan Hidde Kruize is a former field hockey player from The Netherlands, who participated in two Summer Olympics: in Los Angeles and in Seoul...

 and Ties

Ties Kruize

Ties Kruize is a former field hockey player from the Netherlands, who represented Holland at the Summer Olympics of 1972, 1976, and 1984...

), bettered that average in later years. In the late 1960s Kruize was the head coach of the Dutch National Men's Team for one year. He died in Den Haag, aged 67.