# Antoine Kina
**Antoine Kina** (Antoine Sylvain Kina) is a Belgian professional field hockey player who plays as a midfielder, forward, or defender for Gantoise and played for the Belgium national team from 2017 to 2025, winning Olympic gold, a World Cup title, and a European championship. He was born in 1996 in Ghent, Belgium, and is the son of the Belgian field hockey coach Pascal Kina.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/141014)
| Key fact | Detail |
|---|---|
| Full name / born | Antoine Sylvain Kina, born 1996 in Ghent (Gent), Belgium[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/141014) |
| Club career | Gantoise youth and senior career, one season with the Waterloo Ducks (2016–17), back at Gantoise from 2017; Vedanta Kalinga Lancers in the Hockey India League from January 2026[2](https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/field_hockey/antoine-kina/260153/) |
| International career | Belgium 2017–2025, 137 caps and 16 goals per his career record; 126 caps and 15 goals per his Kalinga Lancers profile[3](https://kalingalancers-vedanta.com/team/antoine-kina/) |
| Other Olympic result | 5th place with Belgium in men's hockey at the 2024 Summer Olympics[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/141014) |
## Early career and junior international hockey
Kina came up through the Gantoise youth system in Ghent. He debuted for the Belgium under-21 team at the 2014 EuroHockey Junior Championship, where Belgium finished fourth, and was part of the Belgian squad that took the silver medal at the 2016 Junior World Cup in Lucknow.
He made his senior national team debut in January 2017 in a friendly against the Netherlands.
## Senior international career
**2018 World Cup.** Belgium reached the final and beat the Netherlands 3–2 in a shootout to win the country's first world title in men's hockey.[7](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hockey-world/belgium-beat-netherlands-in-final-shootout-to-win-maiden-world-cup-idUSKBN1OF0OR/?feedName=sportsNews&feedType=RSS) A profile from his time with the Kalinga Lancers describes him as one of the stars of Belgium's "golden generation."
**Tokyo 2020 and later tournaments.** Kina also played at the 2023 World Cup, where Belgium reached the final and lost to Germany in a shootout, taking silver, and at the 2023 EuroHockey Championship.[3](https://kalingalancers-vedanta.com/team/antoine-kina/) At the 2024 Paris Olympics he played in the men's hockey tournament, in which Belgium finished fifth.[1](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/141014)
His Kalinga Lancers profile gives 126 international caps and 15 international goals, a difference the two sources do not reconcile.[3](https://kalingalancers-vedanta.com/team/antoine-kina/) He announced his international retirement after the 2025 EuroHockey Championship, leaving that tournament early because of physical and mental fatigue.[8](https://www.dhnet.be/sports/omnisports/hockey/2025/09/08/antoine-kina-se-livre-apres-lannonce-de-sa-retraite-des-red-lions-je-devenais-trop-negatif-latmosphere-ne-me-convenait-plus-77CKOSEBSND3PKK27LLBZX255E/)
## Club career and honors
With Gantoise, Kina won the Belgian hockey league in the 2022–23 and 2023–24 seasons. In January 2026 he joined the Vedanta Kalinga Lancers of the Hockey India League, where he is listed as a defender and wears number 24; his league statistics there record 9 appearances, 3 green cards, and no goals.[2](https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/field_hockey/antoine-kina/260153/) • [4](https://hockeyindialeague.com/players/antoine-kina-profile-2665)
## Family
Kina is the son of Pascal Kina, the former national team coach and later coach of La Gantoise. A regional report from De Pinte, where Antoine is from, noted that the father watched his son go to his first Olympic Games in Tokyo at age 25, three years after Antoine's first selection for the Red Lions, with which he immediately became world champion.[5](https://avs.be/nieuws/olympische-reeks-vader-en-zoon-kina-a81469) His own account describes growing up as the eldest son in a hockey-passionate family.[6](https://be.linkedin.com/in/antoine-kina-356135249)
## References
1. [Olympedia – Antoine Kina](https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/141014)
2. [Antoine Kina – Global Sports Archive](https://globalsportsarchive.com/people/field_hockey/antoine-kina/260153/)
3. [Antoine Kina – Vedanta Kalinga Lancers](https://kalingalancers-vedanta.com/team/antoine-kina/)
4. [Antoine Kina – Hockey India League](https://hockeyindialeague.com/players/antoine-kina-profile-2665)
5. [Olympische reeks: vader en zoon Kina, AVS](https://avs.be/nieuws/olympische-reeks-vader-en-zoon-kina-a81469)
6. [Antoine Kina – LinkedIn](https://be.linkedin.com/in/antoine-kina-356135249)
7. [Belgium beat Netherlands in shootout to win maiden World Cup, Reuters](https://www.reuters.com/article/us-hockey-world/belgium-beat-netherlands-in-final-shootout-to-win-maiden-world-cup-idUSKBN1OF0OR/?feedName=sportsNews&feedType=RSS)
8. [Antoine Kina se livre après l'annonce de sa retraite des Red Lions, La DH/Les Sports+](https://www.dhnet.be/sports/omnisports/hockey/2025/09/08/antoine-kina-se-livre-apres-lannonce-de-sa-retraite-des-red-lions-je-devenais-trop-negatif-latmosphere-ne-me-convenait-plus-77CKOSEBSND3PKK27LLBZX255E/)
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