Rick van der Ven

Dutch archer (born 1991)

In this Dutch name, the surname is  van der Ven, not  Ven.

Rick van der Ven

Rick van der Ven at the London Olympic Games in 2012

Personal information
Nationality| Dutch
Born|  (1991-04-14) 14 April 1991 (age 34)
Oss
Sport
Sport| Archery

Medal record

Men's archery
Representing  Netherlands
World Championships
| 2013 Belek | Team
| 2015 Copenhagen | Individual
World Cup
| 2014 Wroclaw | Individual
| 2014 Lausanne Final | Individual
| 2014 Shanghai | Individual
| 2014 Shanghai | Team
| 2015 Medellin | Individual
| 2016 Shanghai | Team
European Championships
| 2012 Amsterdam | Individual
| 2012 Amsterdam | Team
| 2022 Munich | Mixed 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
European Games
| 2015 Baku | Team
Olympic Test Event
| 2015 Rio de Janeiro | Team

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.

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.

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## 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.

## External links

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* Official website
* Rick van der Ven at World Archery
* Rick van der Ven at Olympedia
* Rick van der Ven at Olympics.com
* Rick van der Ven at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)