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

• Rick van der Ven's Website
• Twitter @RickvdVen_NL
• (English) Profiel op de website van World Archery Federation
• (English) Profiel op de website van Londen 2012

References