Andreas Cornellis Dirk "Andre" Burstra ( niderl. Andries Cornelis Dirk "André" Boerstra ; December 11, 1924 , Bandung , West Java , Dutch East Indies - March 17, 2016 , The Hague , The Netherlands ) - Dutch athlete, silver medalist of the Olympic Games in Helsinki (1952), bronze - in London (1948) for field hockey .
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| Full name | Andreas Cornis Dirk "Andre" Burstra |
| A country |  Netherlands |
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| Club | HHIJC (The Hague) |
| Date of Birth | December 11, 1924 |
| Place of Birth | Bandung ,, West Java , Dutch East Indies |
| Date of death | March 17, 2016 (91 year) |
| Place of death | The Hague , Netherlands |
Sports career
He played for the HHIJC club from The Hague, which includes many members of the national team. Four-time champion of the Netherlands (1948, 1949, 1951 and 1952).
As a member of the Dutch national team, he won 48 matches: becoming the silver winner of the Summer Olympics in Helsinki (1952) and bronze in London (1948). Corresponding to his nickname “Auster Player”, he took only one stick for the London Olympics and when she broke, he played with a stick borrowed from a teammate.
At the end of his career, having a higher engineering education, he worked at the plant of the oil company Shell .
Sources
- Andre Burstra - Olympic statistics on Sports-Reference.com (Eng.)
- https://web.archive.org/web/20160812070534/http://www.kleinzwitserland.nl/index.php?page=3515&sid=1#ouAezoXJ3AHFxGG5.97