Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991, in
Oss
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) is a Dutch
archer
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who started to practise archery at the age of 8.
In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in
Ogden,
Utah
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Rick was the runner-up with a silver medal. In 2011 at the World Junior Championship in
Legnica
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,
Poland
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he won silver with the Mixed Team, bronze with the men's team and finished 4th in the individual event. In May 2012 in the
Olympic Stadium
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in
Amsterdam
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, Van der Ven became European Champion in Outdoor Archery, both individually and in the team event. In February 2013, in
Rzeszów
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, Van der Ven became also European Champion Indoor, again individually as well as with the Dutch team.
2012 Olympic Games
Van der Ven competed at the
2012 Summer Olympics
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in London in
men's individual archery. He was coached by
Wietse van Alten, winner of the bronze medal in Sydney 2000.
In an upset victory, he convincingly beat top-seed and world-record holder
Im Dong-hyun
Im Dong-hyun (; ; born 12 May 1986) is a South Korean archer. He competes for the South Korean national team and is a former world number one. He has 20/200 vision in his left eye and 20/100 vision in his right eye, meaning he needs to be 1 ...
7–1 in the round of 16. After beating
Kuo Cheng-Wei
Kuo Cheng-wei (; born 9 November 1983) is a Taiwanese professional archer representing Chinese Taipei. He competed in Archery at the 2006 Asian Games and won a silver medal with the men's team consisting of himself, Chen Szu-yuan, ...
6–0 in the quarterfinals, he came to a 5–5 draw in the semi-finals against
Takaharu Furukawa
is an archery athlete from Japan, competing in both individual and team archery events. He competed in the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2020 Summer Olympics. He is the 2006 All-Japan National Champion,
Archery career
Furukawa began his archery caree ...
, shooting 141 versus Furukawa's 140. In the following shoot-off he shot a 9 while Furukawa shot a 10, relegating him to a bronze medal match against
Dai Xiaoxiang. Here Van der Ven again came to a 5–5 draw, scoring 2 points more than his opponent, but lost again in the first shoot-off, thereby finishing in 4th position.
Since 2009 Rick van der Ven is training at The Olympic Sportcentre in
Papendal and is studying Engineering Mechanics in Arnhem.
2016 Olympic Games
At the
2016 Olympic Games
)
, nations = 207 (including IOA and EOR teams)
, athletes = 11,238
, events = 306 in 28 sports (41 disciplines)
, opening = 5 August 2016
, closing = 21 August 2016
, opened_by = Vice President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Vanderlei Cordeiro d ...
, van der Ven competed in both the individual and the men's team events.
In the individual event, van der Ven was in 27th after the ranking round, and faced
Patrick Huston
Patrick Huston (born 5 January 1996) is a British two-time Olympian archer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He captured three world championship titles under the youth level, and eventually competed as a member of the two person archery squad o ...
in the first knock-out round, losing 4–6.
In the team event, the Netherlands were ranked in 9th after the ranking round. They faced the Spanish team in the first elimination round, winning 5–1, before losing to the South Korean team 0–6.
Results 2007
Results 2008
Results 2009
Results 2010
Results 2011
Results 2012
Results 2013
Results 2014
Results 2015
Results 2016
Results 2017
Results 2018
Results 2019
Results 2022
Van der Ven and
Gabriela Schloesser won the gold medal in the
mixed team recurve event at the
2022 European Archery Championships held in Munich, Germany.
References
External links
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1991 births
Living people
Dutch male archers
Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Archers at the 2015 European Games
European Games medalists in archery
European Games bronze medalists for the Netherlands
Olympic archers for the Netherlands
Sportspeople from Oss
World Archery Championships medalists
21st-century Dutch people