- Mijntje Donners
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Medal record 
Mijntje DonnersWomen's Field Hockey Competitor for the 
NetherlandsOlympic Games Silver 2004 Athens Team Competition Bronze 1996 Atlanta Team Competition Bronze 2000 Sydney Team Competition World Cup Silver 1998 Utrecht Team Competition Silver 2002 Perth Team Competition Champions Trophy Gold 2000 Amstelveen Team Competition Silver 1999 Brisbane Team Competition Silver 2001 Amstelveen Team Competition Bronze 2002 Macau Team Competition Bronze 2003 Sydney Team Competition European Nations Cup Gold 1995 Amstelveen Team Competition Gold 1999 Cologne Team Competition Gold 2003 Barcelona Team Competition Wilhelmina Petronella Ardina Maria ("Mijntje") Donners (born February 4, 1974 in Den Bosch, Noord-Brabant) is a field hockey striker from the Netherlands, who played 234 international matches for the Dutch National Women's Team, in which she scored 97 goals.
Donners made her debut on April 1, 1994 against South Korea (4-1), and was a member of the team, that won the bronze medal at the 1996 and 2000 Summer Olympics. Four years later she captured silver at the 2004 Summer Olympics. She retired from international competition after the Athens Games. Donners was nicknamed Goudmijntje, meaning Goldmine, for her ability to score at important moments during the game.
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Awards Preceded by
Cecilia RognoniWorldHockey Player of the Year
2003Succeeded by
Luciana AymarCategories:- 1974 births
- Field hockey players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Field hockey players at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Dutch field hockey players
- Living people
- Olympic field hockey players of the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- People from 's-Hertogenbosch
- Olympic medalists in field hockey
- Dutch field hockey biography stubs
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