Roy van den Berg (born 8 September 1988) is a Dutch track cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Track Team . He was a part of a team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer olympics in the

team sprint The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The current men's ...

event, setting the new Olympic record in the finals. He also competed at the

UCI Track Cycling World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...

in 2010, 2011,

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and

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and won the silver medal at the 2016 UEC European Track Championships in the sprint.

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* 1988 births Living people Dutch male cyclists People from Kampen, Overijssel Dutch cyclists at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships European Championships (multi-sport event) gold medalists UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Dutch track cyclists Cyclists at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in cycling European Games gold medalists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in cycling Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people Cyclists from Overijssel {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1980s-stub