Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991, in Oss)[1] is a Dutch archer who started to practise archery at the age of 8.

Rick van der Ven
Rick van der Ven at the London Olympic Games in 2012
Personal information
NationalityDutch
Born (1991-04-14) 14 April 1991 (age 33)
Oss
Sport
SportArchery
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
Gold medal – first place 2022 Munich Mixed 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

In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in Ogden, Utah, Rick was the runner-up with a silver medal. In 2011 at the World Junior Championship in Legnica, Poland he won silver with the Mixed team, bronze with the men's team and finished 4th in the individual event. In May 2012 in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Van der Ven became European Champion in Outdoor Archery, both individually and in the team event. In February 2013, in Rzeszów, Van der Ven became also European Champion Indoor, again individually as well as with the Dutch team.

2012 Olympic Games

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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.

2016 Olympic Games

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At the 2016 Olympic Games, van der Ven competed in both the individual and the men's team events.[6] In the individual event, van der Ven was in 27th after the ranking round, and faced Patrick Huston in the first knock-out round, losing 4–6.[6] In the team event, the Netherlands were ranked in 9th after the ranking round. They faced the Spanish team in the first elimination round, winning 5–1, before losing to the South Korean team 0–6.[6]

Results 2007

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

Results 2008

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

Results 2009

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

Results 2010

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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

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  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)

Results 2016

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  World Cup Team Shanghai (China)
  Kahraman Bagatir Team Antalya (Turkey)
  Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)

Results 2017

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  Dutch Championship-Field (Netherlands)
  GT-Open-Indoor (Luxemburg)

Results 2018

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  World Championship-Indoor Team (USA)
  Dutch Championship-Outdoor (Netherlands)
  Dutch Championship-Indoor (Netherlands)
  GT-Open-Indoor (Luxemburg)

Results 2019

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  Dutch Championship-Outdoor (Netherlands)

Results 2022

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Van der Ven and Gabriela Schloesser won the gold medal in the mixed team recurve event at the 2022 European Archery Championships held in Munich, Germany.[7][8]

References

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  1. ^ "Rick van der Ven – Archery – Olympic Athlete". 2012 London Olympic Summer Games. International Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 22 August 2012. Retrieved 2 August 2012.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Rick van der Ven". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 30 July 2012.
  3. ^ Van der Ven ousts top seed Archived 23 January 2013 at the Wayback Machine at www.london2012.com
  4. ^ "London 2012 individual FITA Olympic round 70m men Results – Olympic archery". Archived from the original on 5 August 2012. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  5. ^ "London 2012 individual FITA Olympic round 70m men Results – Olympic archery". Archived from the original on 27 January 2013. Retrieved 5 August 2012.
  6. ^ a b c "Rick van der Ven Bio, Stats, and Results | Olympics at Sports-Reference.com". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 14 January 2020. Retrieved 6 December 2020.
  7. ^ Houston, Michael (12 June 2022). "German top seeds lose recurve finals at European Archery Championships". InsideTheGames.biz. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
  8. ^ "2022 European Archery Championships Results Book" (PDF). World Archery Europe. Archived from the original (PDF) on 12 June 2022. Retrieved 12 June 2022.
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