Taeke Taekema

Taeke Wiebe Doekes Taekema ( born January 14, 1980 in Leiderdorp, South Holland) is a Dutch hockey player with the Dutch national hockey team at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, won the silver medal in 2004. Taekema is known for its Schlenzbälle at penalty corners. His debut in the national team he was on 28 January 2000. Currently, he plays for Amsterdamsche H & BC in the Hoofdklasse in the Netherlands.

Through his many penalty corner goals Taekema has been repeatedly scorer in major field hockey tournaments. He was, for example, top scorer in field hockey World Cup 2006 in Mönchengladbach and the field hockey European Championship Men 2007 in Manchester, where he set a record with 16 goals. Against Belgium He even managed a double hat-trick during this tournament.

For the 2012 Olympics, he was not nominated.

Taeke Taekema was considered the world's best shot at penalty corners. His reflexes reached a speed of over 120 km / h