John Martin de Bruyn (born February 3 1956) is a former Dutch-Canadian ice hockey goaltender. He played for the Netherlands men's national ice hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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