BRIELS Thomas

Date of Birth: 23 Aug 1987

Age: 33

Gender: Male

Place of birth: WILRIJK

Birth Country:

Belgium

Place of residence : ANTWERP

Residence Country:

Belgium

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Hockey	Men BEL Belgium	1

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool B #M03 NED Netherlands 1 BEL Belgium 3	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool B #M11 GER Germany 1 BEL Belgium 3	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Pool B #M17 BEL Belgium 9 RSA South Africa 4	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool B #M22 BEL Belgium 9 CAN Canada 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - South Pitch	Men's Pool B #M30 BEL Belgium 2 GBR Great Britain 2	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Quarter-final #M34 BEL Belgium 3 ESP Spain 1	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Semi-final #M36 IND India 2 BEL Belgium 5	Finished
	Oi Hockey Stadium - North Pitch	Men's Gold Medal Match #M38 AUS Australia 1 (2) BEL Belgium 1 (3)	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Rank	Event	Year	Location
2	Men	2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA
5	Men	2012	London, GBR
9	Men	2008	Beijing, CHN

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2018	Bhubaneswar, IND
5	Men	2014	The Hague, NED

FIH Pro League

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2020
2	Men	2019

Champions Trophy

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2018	Breda, NED

World League Final

Rank	Event	Year	Location
5	Men	2016/2017	Bhubaneswar, IND

EuroHockey Championships

Rank	Event	Year	Location
1	Men	2019	Antwerp, BEL
2	Men	2017	Amstelveen, NED
3	Men	2021	Amsterdam, NED

Thomacho (hockeybelgium.lesoir.be, 08 May 2016)

Occupation:

Languages spoken:

HC Oranje Rood [Eindhoven, NED] since 2017/18

Robert van der Horst [club], NED; Shane McLeod [national], NZL

Position style:

Forward (hockey.be, Mar 2020)

Right (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008)

Sporting relatives:

His grandmother played hockey at national level and created the first women's hockey team at KHC Dragons in Brasschaat, Belgium. (self-pass.com, 05 May 2015)

2006 for Belgium Against New Zealand, Friendly Match in Belgium (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008)

National league:

Hoofdklasse [NED] (nos.nl, 04 Apr 2020)

He began playing hockey at around age five for KHC Dragons in Brasschaart, Belgium. (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008; self-pass.com, 05 May 2015)

His parents got him involved in the sport. "My mother and uncles also played hockey so you could say I followed my family into the sport. I began playing with my brother and sister as we are triplets." (Athlete, 31 Jul 2008; self-pass.com, 05 May 2015)

German hockey player Mathias Witthaus. (self-pass.com, 05 May 2015)

General Interest

General
HOCKEY CAMP
He set up his own hockey training course aimed at children aged between 10 to 15 called the Thomas Briels Training Camp, which is based in Amsterdam, Netherlands. (thomasbriels.be, Mar 2020; sportways.com, 2020)

CAREER PATH
In 2008 he moved to Eindhoven, Netherlands, to play for Oranje Zwart in the Hoofdklasse and improve himself as a hockey player. He stayed for seven seasons and won several titles, including the Euro Hockey League. "When I left Belgium, the clubs and the competition were on an amateur level. I wanted to play at the highest level and in the best competition. The difference between the Netherlands and Belgium was massive at that time." After moving back to Belgium to play for KHC Dragons for two seasons, in 2017 he returned to Eindhoven to join HC Oranje Rood. (ehlhockey.tv, 03 Mar 2016; hcoranje-rood.nl, 04 May 2017)

Social Media

Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/thomas.briels.3/?fref=ts
https://instagram.com/thomasbriels17/
https://twitter.com/ThomasBriels
Athlete Website: http://www.thomasbriels.be/

Legend

:: Gold Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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