Fred van Zutphen (born 7 January 1971 in

Veghel Veghel () is a town and a former municipality in the southern Netherlands. On 1 January 2017 Veghel, together with Schijndel and Sint-Oedenrode, merged into a new municipality called Meierijstad creating the largest municipality of the provinc ...

, Netherlands), is a retired Dutch athlete who competes in compound

archery Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In m ...

. Amongst his achievements are competing at the

2000 Summer Olympics The 2000 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXVII Olympiad and also known as Sydney 2000 (Dharug: ''Gadigal 2000''), the Millennium Olympic Games or the Games of the New Millennium, was an international multi-sport event held from 1 ...

in the recurve discipline, where he reached the last 16, winning stages in the team competition at the FITA Archery World Cup in

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and

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, winning silver medals at the

European Archery Championships The European Archery Championships is an archery outdoor/indoor and .... championship in Europe. Championships 1968-2012: European Mediterranean Archery Championships 2014-2022: European Archery Championships European and Mediterranean Arch ...

and becoming the world number one ranked archer in 2003.

References

1971 births Living people Dutch male archers Archers at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for the Netherlands People from Veghel Sportspeople from North Brabant {{Netherlands-archery-bio-stub