Carina Benninga

Carina Marguerite Benninga (born August 18, 1962 in  Leiden,  Zuid-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 Holland 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.