Melvin Schol (born 27 April 1991) is a dutch

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who represented his native country

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and since 2015 he switched for sport jujitsu. He began with

at hometown

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at Ben Rietdijk's judo academy. Since 2011 he was part of Netherlands's judo team. He was competing unsuccessfully with Neal van de Kamer for Netherlands's leader at −81 kg weight category. Around autumn 2014 he decided switch sport for sport jujitsu because Netherlands hosted in 2015

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in city

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. He was trained by Dutch ju-jitsu legend

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and at European championships he took second place. Later on November he became world champion in ju-jitsu in

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. He retired from top sport around 2018.

References

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