Ronaldus Cornelis "Ron" Stevens (born 15 February 1959 in
Lienden
Lienden is a village in the Dutch province of Gelderland. It is a part of the municipality of Buren, and lies about 9 km south of Veenendaal.
Lienden was a separate municipality until 1999, when it was merged with Buren.
History
It was fi ...
,
Gelderland
Gelderland (), also known as Guelders () in English, is a province of the Netherlands, occupying the centre-east of the country. With a total area of of which is water, it is the largest province of the Netherlands by land area, and second by ...
) is a Dutch
sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1980s. He won a silver in the K-2 10000 m event at the
1982 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships
The 1982 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships were held in Belgrade, Yugoslavia for the record fourth time. The Yugoslavian (now Serbian) city had host the championships previously in 1971, 1975, and 1978.
The men's competition consisted of six Ca ...
in
Belgrade
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.
Stevens also competed in two
Summer Olympics
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, earning his best finish of seventh in the
K-2 1000 m event at
Moscow
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in
1980
Events January
* January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission.
* January 6 – Global Positioning System time epoch begins at 00:00 UTC.
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References
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1959 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Buren
Canoeists at the 1980 Summer Olympics
Canoeists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Dutch male canoeists
Olympic canoeists for the Netherlands
ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medalists in kayak
20th-century Dutch people
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