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Mark Neeleman

Mark Neeleman
Personal information
Full name Mark Jacobus Louis Neeleman
Nationality Dutch
Born (1959-04-16) 16 April 1959 (age 57)
Baghdad, Iraq
Height 1.84 m (6.0 ft)
Sailing career
Class(es) Laser, Finn, O-Jolle, Star, Dragon
Club Roei- en Zeilvereniging "Gouda"
Updated on 15 February 2014.

Mark Jacobus Louis Neeleman (born 16 April 1959, in Baghdad, Iraq) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Neeleman represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. Neeleman took 8th place in the Finn. In 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles Neeleman did a second attempt in the Finn and finished on the 9th place. Neeleman missed the selection for the 1988 Olympics, Pusan.

After that he switched to the Star. With crew member Jos Schrier at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Neeleman took 4th place. Again in the Star and again with Jos Schrier, Neeleman took 6th place in the 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney. His last Olympic appearance was in the 2004 Athens Olympics. This time with crew member Peter van Niekerk, Neeleman took 14th place in the Star.


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