Hennie Dompeling
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| Full name | Hendrikus Dompeling | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Netherlands
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9 April 1966 Haarlemmermeer, The Netherlands |
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| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 126 kg (278 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Shooting | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Event(s) | Skeet (SK125) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | KSV Claybusters | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coached by | Nella Heemskerk | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Hendrikus "Hennie" Dompeling (born April 9, 1966 in Haarlemmermeer) is a Dutch sport shooter. He has competed for the Netherlands in skeet shooting at five Olympics (1988 to 2004), and has been close to an Olympic medal in 2000 (finishing in fourth place). Outside the Olympic career, Dompeling has produced a phenomenal record of twenty-one medals in a major international competition: two bronze at the World Championships, a total of four (two golds and two silver) at the ISSF World Cup final, a total of nine (five golds, three silver, one bronze) at numerous ISSF World Cup meets, and a total of six (two golds, one silver, and three bronze) under both junior and senior category at the European Championships.
Having started the sport since the age of fourteen, Dompeling has been a member of Claybusters Skeet Shooting Association (Dutch: Kleiduiven Schiet Vereniging Clay Busters, KSV Claybusters), and a resident athlete of the Royal Netherlands Shooting Federation (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Schietsport Associatie, KNSA), where he trained throughout his career under head coach Nelia Heemskerk.
Dompeling competed internationally for the Netherlands at the age of eighteen, and then became a junior European champion in skeet shooting at Montecatini, Italy when he was twenty. Two years later, Dompeling made his first Dutch team at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the mixed skeet with 195 points.
In 1991, Dompeling set a new final world record of 225 clay pigeons to take the silver medal at the ISSF World Cup final in Munich, Germany. Dompeling's magnificent world-record feat culminated in a selection of being one of clear favorites for an Olympic medal at his succeeding Games in Barcelona 1992, but slipped out of his contention desperately to forty-second place in the final debut of the mixed skeet, posting a dismal score of 143.
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