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Rick van der Ven

Rick van der Ven
Rick van der Ven - OS2012 Londen - IMG 2427.JPG
Rick van der Ven at the London Olympic Games in 2012
Medal record
Men's archery
Representing  Netherlands
World Championships
Silver medal – second place 2013 Belek Team
Silver medal – second place 2015 Copenhagen Individual
World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Wroclaw Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Lausanne Final Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Shanghai Individual
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Shanghai Team
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Medellin Individual
Silver medal – second place 2016 Shanghai Team
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 2012 Amsterdam Individual
Gold medal – first place 2012 Amsterdam Team
World Indoor Championships
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Nîmes Team
Indoor World Cup
Gold medal – first place 2014 Nîmes Individual
European Indoor Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Rzeszow Individual
Gold medal – first place 2013 Rzeszow Team
Gold medal – first place 2015 Koper Team
European Games
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Baku Team
Olympic Test Event
Bronze medal – third place 2015 Rio de Janeiro Team

Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991 in Oss, Netherlands) is a Dutch archer who started at the age of 8.

In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in Ogden (USA) Rick was the runner-up with a Silver medal. In 2011 at the WJC in Legnica (Polen) he won Silver with the Mixed Team, Bronze with the Team and Individually he got 4th. In May 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam (the Netherlands), Van der Ven became Outdoor, both individually as well as with the Dutch team. In February 2013, in Rzeszow (Polen), Van der Ven became also European Champion Indoor, again individually as well as with the Dutch team.

Van der Ven competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics 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 7-1 in the round of 16. After beating Kuo Cheng-Wei 6-0 in the quarterfinals, he came to a 5-5 draw in the semi-finals against Takaharu Furukawa, 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.


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