Carina Benninga

Carina Benninga

Medal record
Women's field hockey
Representing the Netherlands
Olympic Games
	1984 Los Angeles	Team
	1988 Seoul	Team
World Cup
	1990 Sydney	Team
Champions Trophy
	1987 Amstelveen	Team
	1991 Berlin	Team
European Nations Cup
	1987 London	Team

Carina Marguerite Benninga (born 18 August 1962 in Leiden, South Holland) is a former Dutch field hockey player, who played 158 international matches for The Netherlands hockey team, in which she scored 25 goals. She was part of the gold medal winning team at the 1984 Summer Olympics and also won a bronze medal at the 1988 Seoul Olympics. Other highlights of her career include gold medals at the EuroHockey Nations Championship and Champions Trophy in 1987, as well as a gold at the 1990 Women's Hockey World Cup

Career

She is Jewish. At club level, she played for HDM, HGC and Amsterdam in the Dutch Hockey League. At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona she was the first woman from the Netherlands to carry the flag at the opening ceremony.

Benninga became a hockey coach after her active career, and was in charge as assistant-coach for the United States, head coach of Alecto, Amsterdam and HC Klein Zwitserland. Her older brother Marc also played international field hockey.

See also

• List of select Jewish field hockey players

External links

• Dutch Hockey Federation

Olympic Games
Preceded by Eric Swinkels	Flagbearer for Netherlands Barcelona 1992	Succeeded by Anky van Grunsven