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The streak is broken: after 11 straight Olympic games, Mink Van Der Weerden did not score…

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Taking as the starting point the first game at London 2012 (July 30, 2012), Mink Van Der Weerden did not stop scoring at Olympic hockey games until the match against Germany in Rio (August 12, 2016). He scored 14 goals in 11 games! This is a list of each goal that he scored:

London 2012
1) vs India: 3 – 2 (51′) – (July 30, 2012)
2) vs Belgium: 3-1 (43′, 62′) – (August 1, 2012)
3) vs New Zealand 5-1 (’27) – (August 3, 2012)
4) vs Germany 3-1 (’41) – (August 5, 2012)
5) vs South Korea 4-2 (’17)- (August 7, 2012)
6) vs Great Britain 9-2 (’22) / Semi finals /- (August 9, 2012)
7) vs Germany 1-2 (’54) / Final / – (August 11, 2012)

Rio 2016
8) vs Argentina 3-3 (’36) – (August 6, 2016)
9) vs Ireland 5-0 (‘7, ’40) – (August 7, 2016)
10) vs Canada 7-0 (’25, ’52, ’60) – (August 9, 2016)
11) vs India 2-1 (’54) – (August 11, 2016)

By Pablo Mendoza

Pablo Mendoza is an FIH Hockey Academy Educator and the owner of A Hockey World. Contact: pablo@ahockeyworld.net