Rick van der Ven

Rick van der Ven

Rick van der Ven at the London Olympic Games in 2012
Medal record
Men's archery
Competitor for  Netherlands
World Championships
2013 Belek Team
2015 Belek Individual
World Cup
2014 Lausanne Individual
European Championships
2012 Amsterdam Individual
2012 Amsterdam Team
World Indoor Championships
2014 Nîmes Team
Indoor World Cup
2014 Nîmes Individual
European Indoor Championships
2013 Rzeszow Individual
2013 Rzeszow Team
2015 Koper Team

Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991 in Oss, Netherlands)[1] 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 European champion 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.

2012 Olympic games

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.[2] In an upset victory, he convincingly beat top-seed and world-record holder Im Dong-hyun 7-1 in the round of 16.[3] 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.[4] 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.[5] Since 2009 Rick van der Ven is training at The Olympic Sportcentre in Papendal and is studying Engineering Mechanics in Arnhem.

Results 2007

Dutch Championship-Outdoor Cadet (Netherlands)
Face-2-Face Junior Diessen (Netherlands)

Results 2008

Dutch Championship-Outdoor Junior (Netherlands)
Face-2-Face Junior Diessen (Netherlands)
Junior Cup Team Legnica (Polen)

Results 2009

Junior World Championship-Outdoor Ogden (USA)
Junior Cup Team Legnica (Polen)

Results 2010

European Championship-Indoor Junior Team Porec (Kroatia)
Dutch Championship-Outdoor (Netherlands)
Dutch Championship-Outdoor Junior (Netherlands)
Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)
European Championship -Outdoor Junior Team Winnenden (Germany)
Dutch Championship-Indoor Junior (Netherlands)

Results 2011

Dutch Championship-Outdoor (Netherlands)
Dutch Championship-Indoor Junior (Netherlands)
World Championship-Outdoor Junior Mixed Team Legnica (Polen)
Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)
World Championship-Outdoor Junior Team Legnica (Polen)
EMAU GP-Outdoor Team Antalya (Turkey)

Results 2012

European Championship -Outdoor Amsterdam (Netherlands)
European Championship -Outdoor Team Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Dutch Championship-Outdoor (Netherlands)
Berlin Open Berlin (Germany)
European Indoor Tournament Nimes (France)

Results 2013

European Championship -Indoor Rzeszow (Polen)
European Championship -Indoor Team Rzeszow (Polen)
World Cup-Indoor Marrakesh(Morocco)
Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)
World Championship-Outdoor Team Belek-Antalya (Turkey)
European Indoor Tournament Nimes (France)
Dutch Championship-Outdoor Almere (Netherlands)
Indoor World Cup Finale Las Vegas (USA)

Results 2014

Indoor World Cup Final Las Vegas (U.S.A.)
Indoor World Cup Las Vegas (USA)
World Cup Wroclaw (Polen)
Eucrea Archery Champions-Day Sternenfels (Germany)
Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)
Dutch Championship-Field Zuidlaren (Netherlands)
Dutch Championship-Outdoor Weert (Netherlands)
World Championship- Indoor Teams Nimes (France)
World Cup Final Lausanne (Zwitserland)
World Cup Shanghai (China)
World Cup Teams Shanghai (China)

Results 2015

European Championship-Indoor Koper (Slovenia)
Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)
World Championship-Outdoor Copenhagen (Danmark)
European Grand Prix Team Marathon (Greece)
Olympic Test Event Team Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
European Games Team Baku (Azerbaijan)
World Cup Medellin (Colombia)

Appendix

References

  1. "Rick van der Ven – Archery – Olympic Athlete". 2012 London Olympic Summer Games. International Olympic Committee. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. "Rick van der Ven". Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  3. Van der Ven ousts top seed at www.london2012.com


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