Reinder Aart Nummerdor (born 10 September 1976) is a Dutch

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player, who represented his native country at five consecutive

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. Two times as a member of the indoor volleyball team in

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and

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, and 3 more times after switching to beach volleyball. Having finished in fifth place in

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he ended up in ninth place with the Dutch Men's National Team four years later in

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. He earned a total number of 349 caps, and teamed up with Richard Schuil after the Athens Games for a career in

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. On 12 May 2007 in

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, the two won their first FIVB World Tour gold medal. They won a silver medal in the same tour on 1 July in

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. They reached the quarter-finals at the

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, and the semi-finals in

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. They lost in the bronze medal match against Plavins and Smedins of Latvia. Following Schuil's retirement, Nummerdor paired with Christiaan Varenhorst. Nummerdor is married to the Dutch volleyball player Manon Nummerdor-Flier.

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1976 births Living people Dutch men's volleyball players Dutch men's beach volleyball players Volleyball players at the 2000 Summer Olympics Volleyball players at the 2004 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2012 Summer Olympics Beach volleyball players at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic volleyball players of the Netherlands Olympic beach volleyball players of the Netherlands People from Kampen, Overijssel Beach volleyball defenders Sportspeople from Overijssel 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-volleyball-bio-stub