page_title: Sittard-Geleen
section_title: Sport
hierarchical_section_title: Sittard-Geleen / Notable people / Sport
caption_attribution_description: Maartje Paumen
context_page_description: Sittard-Geleen is a municipality in the southeastern Netherlands. It was formed in 2001 from the former municipalities Sittard, Geleen and Born.
  The combined municipality has approximately 92,518 inhabitants and is thus the second most populated municipality in Limburg. Since February 2020, the city has been governed by a coalition of CDA, GroenLinks and the local parties GOB and Stadspartij.
  The highway connecting the centres of Sittard and Geleen, the Rijkswegboulevard, has been rebuilt to be a main route for cycling and walking. The cycling and walking provision is both generous and continuous. Side road junctions, or crossroads, are made 'subordinate'. The carriageways have been narrowed to one 3m lane in each direction. Parking places have been made, in small groups, at the side of the carriageways. These are made to be 'not easy to use for larger vehicles' and so the road centre is marked as a place for delivery vehicles to stop. Information supplied by the highway engineers: Büro für Stadt und Verkehr, Aachen, Germany.
  To the west, Sittard-Geleen borders on Belgium, while to the east, it borders on Germany.
context_section_description: Leo Horn (1916 in Sittard – 1995) an international football referee, newspaper columnist and textile manufacturer
  Jan Krekels (born 1947 in Sittard) a retired cyclist, 1968 Olympic champion in the 100 km team time trial
  Huub Stevens (born 1953 in Sittard) a football manager and former defender with 397 club caps
  Wilbert Suvrijn (born 1962 in Sittard) a retired Dutch footballer with 341 club caps
  Lambert Schuurs (born 1962 in Sittard) a retired handball player and ultra-long distance runner
  Arnold Vanderlyde (born 1963 in Sittard) a former Dutch boxer, who participated in three Summer Olympics (1984, 1988 and 1992) and won three bronze medals
  Wil Boessen (born 1964 in Sittard) a Dutch retired football player with 397 club caps and manager
  Ton Caanen (born 1966 in Geleen) a Dutch football manager.
  Rens Blom (born 1977 in Munstergeleen) a Dutch pole vaulter, competed in the 2000 and 2004 Summer Olympics
  Maartje Paumen (born 1985 in Geleen) a former Dutch field hockey player, twice gold medallist at the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics, silver medallist at the 2016 Summer Olympics
  Benjamin van den Broek (born 1987 in Geleen) a New Zealand international footballer with 275 club caps
  Rob Bontje (born 1981 in Grevenbicht) a volleyball player, competed at the 2004 Olympic Games
  Sjoerd Winkens (born 1983 in Geleen) a former professional footballer with over 300 club caps
  Dominick Muermans (born 1984 in Geleen) a Dutch racing driver
caption: Maartje Paumen, 2009
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