Andy Hoepelman

Ilja Mohandas "Andy" Hoepelman (born March 26, 1955)[1] is a Dutch former Olympic water polo player and current professor in medicine, subspecialty infectious diseases.

He is with his Masters team HZC de Robben European champion in Istanbul (2011), Budapest (2013), Rijeka (2016) and Kranj (2018).

Since 2017 he has been a member of the World Aquatics (FINA) TWPC, where his interest is in modernizing Waterpolo rules, education of referees and beach water polo.

He was cofounder and chairman of the regional Waterpolo training Centre "Talent Centraal" until 2015 when TC was discontinued.

Hoepelman obtained MD and PhD degrees from Utrecht University, writing a dissertation entitled Iron and Infection.