Yibbi Jansen

Personal background

Yibbi Jansen was born on 18 November 1999 and represents the Netherlands. Hockey was a family environment: Olympics.com identifies her father Ronald Jansen as a double Olympic champion, while Jansen’s Osaka interview says both parents played hockey. Watching the Netherlands at London 2012 helped turn that family connection into a clear Olympic ambition. [S2] [S5] [S9]

Professional journey

Jansen entered the Dutch Hoofdklasse with HC Den Bosch at 15, won the 2015/16 title, then moved to Oranje-Rood because she wanted greater responsibility and development beyond a defensive role. The move helped her sharpen the penalty-corner work that became central to her international career. She debuted for the Netherlands in January 2018 and is listed by Osaka as a SCHC midfielder in the current evidence set. [S5] [S9]

For related field-hockey career profiles, see Harmanpreet Singh, Arthur Van Doren, Eva de Goede.

Playing career

Her record combines sustained international output with major tournament honours. The FIH record lists 120 senior caps and 119 senior goals through 29 August 2026. It also records leading-scorer awards at the 2017 junior European Championship, the 2023 and 2025 European Championships, Player of the Tournament at EuroHockey 2025, and player-of-the-match awards in two Pro League seasons. Paris 2024 added Olympic gold and nine goals, followed by the 2024 FIH women’s Player of the Year award. [S1] [S2] [S6]

Playing style

Jansen’s defining set-piece weapon is the penalty-corner strike. FIH calls her a leading penalty-corner drag-flicker, and the 2026 event statistics show all eight of her World Cup goals and all nine of her Olympic goals came from penalty corners. In her Osaka interview she describes a broader midfield approach built on reading the game, control, possession and precise passing. Those descriptions support a player who combines a specialist scoring role with midfield link play. [S2] [S3] [S9]

Setbacks and comebacks

The clearest documented setback came in early 2020, when Jansen was dropped from the Netherlands’ Tokyo Olympic pathway. Her own comments, reported by Olympics.com, frame the episode as an early disappointment rather than a retirement decision. She returned to the Olympic stage at Paris 2024, where she scored nine goals in the gold-medal campaign and later received the FIH women’s Player of the Year award. [S5] [S6]

Post-playing work

Jansen is an active international and club player, so no post-playing career has been established and she has not announced retirement in the sources reviewed. Osaka reports that she completed a master’s degree in finance and is working on a project with the brand; those are current professional-development details, not evidence of a completed post-playing career. [S1] [S9]

Public ventures and endorsements

The documented commercial relationship is with Osaka. Its athlete page calls Jansen an ambassador and describes a partnership around an Osaka x Yibbi stick. This profile therefore treats it as an endorsement/ambassador relationship, not ownership, founding or investment. The available source does not establish that Jansen owns Osaka or a separate public company. [S9]