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Arthur Georges Stanislas Henri Van Doren (born 1 October 1994) is a Belgian field hockey player who plays as a defender for Dutch club Bloemendaal and the Belgium national team.
He is the brother of fellow Belgian international Loic Van Doren. In 2017 he won simultaneously both FIH awards of FIH Player and FIH Rising Star of the Year. At the 2018 Hockey Stars Awards he was named the FIH Player of the Year for the second time in a row.
Club career
He played club hockey in Belgium for KHC Dragons. With this club, he became the national hockey champion in 2011. In 2012, he was honoured with the Golden Stick (category junior male players) by the Belgian Hockey Association. Shortly after he won the FIH player of the year awardin 2018, it was announced he would join his current club HC Bloemendaal from the 2018–19 season onwards. In his first season with Bloemendaal, he won his first Dutch national title by winning the championship final against Kampong. In January 2020, it was announced he extended his stay at Bloemendaal for atleast one more season.
International career
Van Doren became European champions with the Belgium under-21 squad in 2012. His first selection for the national team was at the age of 17. With Belgium, he became European vice-champion at the 2013 European Championship on home ground in Boom and at the 2017 European Championship in Amstelveen, Netherlands. He was a part of the Belgian squad which won the silver medal at the 2016 Summer Olympics. In 2016 he won the FIH Rising Star of the Year award, which he won again in 2017 together with the FIH Player of the Year award. He was a part of the Belgian squad which won Belgium its first World Cup and European title. In December 2019, he again was nominated for the FIH Player of the Year Award.
Honours
International
Belgium
- Olympic Silver Medal: 2016
- World Cup: 2018
- EuroHockey Championship: 2019
Belgium U21
- EuroHockey Junior Championship: 2012
Club
Bloemendaal
- Hoofdklasse: 2018–19
Dragons
- Belgian Hockey League: 2010–11, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18
Individual
- FIH Rising Star of the Year: 2016, 2017
- FIH Player of the Year: 2017, 2018
- Gouden Stick: 2014, 2016, 2017
- EuroHockey Championship Player of the Tournament: 2017
- FIH Hockey World Cup Best Player: 2018