Jan Groenendijk - Draughts World Championship 2015

Jan Groenendijk (born 7 September 1998 in Wageningen) is a Dutch draughts player who ranked second at the

2015 World Draughts Championship The 2015 World Draughts Championship at the international draughts was held November 8–24, 2015 at Emmen, Netherlands International Draughts Federation FMJD. Twenty players were competing in the tournament. It was played as a round-robin, wi ...

in Emmen. Winner

Salou Open Salou Open is a yearly international draughts tournament. The tournament has been organized since 1998 in the second half of May in the resort of Salou Salou () is a municipality of the '' comarca'' of Tarragonès, in the province of Tarragona, in ...

-2015. He also won the Dutch championship twice (2020, 2022). Groenendijk is an International grandmaster.

World championship

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(2nd place) *

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(2nd place) *

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a ser ...

(7th place in semifinal B) *

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(4 place)2019 World Draughts Championship
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(4 place)

European championship

* 2012 (26th place) * 2014 (9th place) * 2018 (11th place)

External links

Profile Jan Groenendijk
at site KNDB

References

1998 births Living people Dutch draughts players Players of international draughts People from Wageningen Sportspeople from Gelderland {{Board-game-stub