Vincent Vanasch

Vincent Vanasch
Personal information
Nationality Belgian
Born (1987-12-21) 21 December 1987
Evere, Belgium
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight 78 kg (172 lb)
Website http://vincentvanasch.be
Sport
Country  Belgium
Sport Field hockey
Medal record
Olympic Games
2016 Rio de JaneiroTeam
European Championships
2017 Amsterdam

Vincent Vanasch (born 21 December 1987) is a Belgian international field hockey goalkeeper. He At the 2012 Summer Olympics, he competed for the national team in the men's tournament.[1] Vanasch won the silver medal with Belgium at the 2013 European Championship on home ground in Boom. At the 2016 Summer Olympics, he was part of the Belgian team who won the silver medal.

Biography

Vincent Vanasch has been involved in hockey from an early age. Indeed, his father "Jean" created the youth school of the "Royal Evere White Star Hockey Club". He did all his classes until the first team with which he won several titles (grass and indoor). When the club got relegated to Division 1, at the end of the 2006-2007 season, he went to play at the "Royal Penguin Hockey Club Nivellois". Club in which he played for two seasons and to become the revelation of the championship. To the point of getting a transfer to KHC Leuven.

Unfortunately for him, things were less rosy (mainly due to a lot of extra athletic worries). Vincent has since stopped everything in mid-season, to refocus on his studies.

Since the 2010-2011 season, he defends the goals of the Waterloo Ducks HC with the success that we all know.

References

  1. ↑ "Vincent Vanasch". London 2012. The London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games Limited. Retrieved 13 September 2012.


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