Rob Druppers

Dutch middle-distance runner

Rob Druppers

Druppers in 1983

Personal information
Born|  (1962-04-29) 29 April 1962 (age 63)
Utrecht, Netherlands
Height| 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight| 70 kg (154 lb)
Sport
Country|  Netherlands
Sport| Middle-distance running
Club| Hercules, Dordrecht

Medal record

World Championships
| 1983 Helsinki | 800 m
European Indoor Championships
| 1987 Liévin | 800 m
| 1988 Budapest | 800 m
| 1989 The Hague | 800 m

Robertus Johannes Druppers (born 29 April 1962) is a Dutch former middle-distance runner who won the silver medal in the 800 m event at the 1983 World Championships. He set a Dutch 800 m record at 1:43.56 in Cologne in 1985, and a 1000 m record of 2:15.23 in his home town Utrecht in the same year. Druppers competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 800 m.[1]

## Competition record

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Representing the  Netherlands
1982  | European Championships | Athens, Greece  | 5th  | 800 m  | 1:47.06
1983  | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary  | semi-final (dnf)  | 800 m  | 1:49.28 (heat)
World Championships | Helsinki, Finland  | 2nd  | 800 m  | 1:44.20
1986  | European Championships | Stuttgart, West Germany | 4th  | 800 m  | 1:45.53
1987  | European Indoor Championships | Liévin, France | 1st  | 800 m  | 1:48.12
World Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, United States  | 8th  | 800 m  | 1:48.89
World Championships | Rome, Italy  | heats  | 800 m  | 1:50.58
1988  | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary  | 2nd  | 800 m  | 1:49.45
Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea  | quarter-final  | 800 m  | 1:46.91
1989  | European Indoor Championships | The Hague (Netherlands)  | 2nd  | 800 m  | 1:48.96
World Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | semi-final  | 800 m  | 1:49.70

DNF = did not finish

## Personal bests

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Outdoor

* 800 metres – 1:43.56 (Cologne 1985)
* 1000 metres – 2:15.23 (Utrecht 1985)
* 1500 metres – 3:35.07 (1985)

Indoor

* 800 metres – 1:46.29 (Stuttgart 1987)
* 1000 metres – 2:16.4 (The Hague 1988)

## References

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1. ^ Rob Druppers. sports-reference.com

## External links

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* Rob Druppers at World Athletics

Awards

Preceded by

Gerard Nijboer

|  Herman van Leeuwen Cup
1983
1985  | Succeeded by

Erik de Bruin

Preceded by

Erik de Bruin

| Succeeded by

Han Kulker

Preceded by

Gerard Nijboer

|  Dutch Sportsman of the Year
1983  | Succeeded by

Stephan van den Berg

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Japan Championships in Athletics men's 800 metres champions

* 1913–15: 880 yards

* 1913: Ikichi Ide
* 1914–15: Ichiro Sawada
* 1916: Taku Gishiro
* 1917: Shinsaku Yamauchi
* 1918–19: Iwao Saiki
* 1920: Takeharu Sawada
* 1921: Kikuo Toda
* 1922: Torashiro Sakairi
* 1923: Tokushige Noto
* 1924: Not held
* 1925: Naomon Nawada
* 1926: Hideo Okada
* 1927: Yukiyoshi Kuwata
* 1928: Hideo Okada
* 1929–30: Shin Hisatomi
* 1931: Toyozo Tenchika
* 1932: Akihide Fujieda
* 1933: Shusuke Hosaka
* 1934: Kumao Aochi
* 1935: Akihide Fujieda
* 1936: Toshio Kinoshita
* 1937: Toshinao Tomie
* 1938: Isanji Omori
* 1939–40: Masami Ishida
* 1941: Not held
* 1942: Fumio Hirai
* 1943–45: Not held
* 1946: Susumu Takahashi
* 1947: Fumio Hirai
* 1948: Norihito Sugawara
* 1949: Yukio Kikuchi
* 1950: Ichiro Tao
* 1951: Juno Mizuki
* 1952: Yoshitaka Muroya
* 1953: Hiroaki Chosa
* 1954–55: Yoshitaka Muroya
* 1956–57: Norio Okayama
* 1958: Rei Watanabe
* 1959: Kuniaki Watanabe
* 1960–61: Aoi Morimoto
* 1962: Katsu Nakanishi
* 1963: Aoi Morimoto
* 1964: Kiyoshi Odaka
* 1965: Norihiko Tsukagoshi
* 1966–67: Satsuo Iwashita
* 1968: Jun Nagai
* 1969: Toru Ota
* 1970: Kazuyoshi Mizuno
* 1971–72: Toru Ota
* 1973: Kazuyoshi Mizuno
* 1974–78: Takashi Ishii
* 1979: Toshifumi Shigenari
* 1980: Toshihiro Funaki
* 1981–82: Yutaka Hirai
* 1983: Toru Shioda
* 1984: Yutaka Hirai
* 1985: Kazumitsu Hirata
* 1986: Toru Shioda
* 1987: Yu Hoshino
* 1988: Yasushi Kano
* 1989: Dieudonné Kwizera (BDI)
* 1990: Rob Druppers (NED)
* 1991: Pablo Squella (CHI)
* 1992: Yoshito Konno
* 1993: José Luíz Barbosa (BRA)
* 1994–95 Yumasa Ono
* 1996: Yoshiharu Senba
* 1997–98: Tomohiro Kitamura
* 1999: Manabu Isshi
* 2000: Hiroshi Sasano
* 2001: Masaharu Nakano
* 2002–03: Hiroshi Sasano
* 2004: Naoto Suzuki
* 2005: Yoshihiro Shimodaira
* 2006–07: Masato Yokota
* 2008: Takeshi Kuchino
* 2009–12: Masato Yokota
* 2013–18: Sho Kawamoto
* 2019: Aaron Tatsunami Clay
* 2020: Setoguchi Daichi
* 2021: Kazuki Tamogami
* 2022: Mikuto Kaneko
* 2023: Sho Kawamoto
* 2024: Ko Ochiai

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