Ron Luitjen Lucia van der Hoff (born 26 March 1978 in
Venray
Venray or Venraij (; li, Venroj) is a municipality and a city in Limburg, the Netherlands.
The municipality of Venray consists of 14 towns over an area of , with 43,494 inhabitants as of July 2016. About 30,000 of those inhabitants live in th ...
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Limburg
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* Limburg (Belgium), a province since 1839 in the Flanders region of Belgium
* Limburg (Netherlands), a province since 1839 in the south of the Netherlands
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) is an athlete from the
Netherlands
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, who competes in
archery.
Van der Hoff competed in
archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Archery at the 2004 Summer Olympics was held at Panathinaiko Stadium in Athens, Greece with ranking rounds on 12 August and regular competition held from 15 August to 21 August. One hundred twenty-eight archers from forty-three nations comp ...
. In men's individual archery, he won his first match, upsetting
Butch Johnson
Richard Andrew "Butch" Johnson (born August 30, 1955 in Worcester, Massachusetts) is an archer from Woodstock, Connecticut in the United States. He has competed in the Summer Olympics five times, and was a part of the gold medal U.S. team at th ...
of the US. Advancing to the round of 32, he was defeated in the second round of elimination. His final rank was 30th overall.
Van der Hoff was also a member of the Netherlands' 5th-place men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. This team had placed 6th at the 2003 World Championship.
References
sports-reference
1978 births
Living people
Dutch male archers
Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics
Olympic archers of the Netherlands
People from Venray
Competitors at the 2001 World Games
Sportspeople from Limburg (Netherlands)
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