Anton Ludwig "Tony" van Dorp (25 May 1936 – 24 November 2010) was a Dutch-American

water polo Water polo is a competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the ball into the opposing team's goal. The team with the ...

goalkeeper. He was born in

Batavia, Dutch East Indies Batavia was the capital of the Dutch East Indies. The area corresponds to present-day Jakarta, Indonesia. Batavia can refer to the city proper or its suburbs and hinterland, the Ommelanden, which included the much-larger area of the Residency ...

, to Dutch parents and played in the Netherlands and for the Dutch national team until 1963. However, since 1957 he lived most of the time in the United States and had the US citizenship. Thus he competed in the

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and

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...

for the United States. He then played for the club Phillips 66, Long Beach, and became AAU All-American in 1964–68. In 1967, his team won the

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where he stopped 50% of penalty shots and was named the outstanding goalkeeper of the tournament. Beside water polo, he served for 21 years as an

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with the

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in the US, Germany, and Vietnam.Passages: Tony Van Dorp, 74 – November 24, 2010
swimmingworldmagazine.com His younger brother, Fred van Dorp, was also a water polo player, who participated in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics for the Netherlands, and played against his brother. One anecdote on this rivalry says that in the 1964 game, while Fred was preparing for a penalty shot, Tony thought that "Fred knows that I know that he always shoots to his right, so he will go to his left, and I'll play it that way. But then I thought that he would also realize this and not shoot to his left, so I went to his right … and there was the ball." In 1982, he was inducted into the

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. Tony van Dorp died of cancer in 2010 and was survived by his three children, Fred, Helen, Kristie, and four grandchildren.

International senior tournaments

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(Tokyo, Japan, 9th position) *

1967 Pan American Games The 1967 Pan American Games were held in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, from July 23 to August 6, 1967. Winnipeg was chosen as host of the Pan American Games on its second try. It first bid for the 1963 Games at the 1959 PASO meeting in Chicago ...

(Winnipeg, Canada, gold medal) *

(Mexico City, Mexico, 5th position)

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Van Dorp, Tony 1936 births 2010 deaths Dorp, Tony van Dorp, Tony van American male water polo players Water polo goalkeepers Olympic water polo players for the United States Water polo players at the 1964 Summer Olympics Water polo players at the 1968 Summer Olympics Deaths from cancer in California Air traffic controllers Pan American Games medalists in water polo Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in water polo Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games Water polo players at the 1967 Pan American Games

International senior tournaments

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