Emiel Nicolaas Paulus Boersma (born 25 August 1980) is a

volleyball Volleyball is a team sport in which two teams of six players are separated by a net. Each team tries to score points by grounding a ball on the other team's court under organized rules. It has been a part of the official program of the Summ ...

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from the

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

. Boersma competes in

beach volleyball Beach volleyball is a team sport played by two teams of two to four players each on a sand court divided by a net. Similar to indoor volleyball, the objective of the game is to send the ball over the net and to ground it on the opponent's side o ...

and forms a team with Bram Ronnes. Together they finished in 9th position at the 2007 World Championships in

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. In a heavy competition with Jochem de Gruijter and Ronnes' brother Gijs they challenged to win a ticket for the

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. Both teams achieved the national and international qualification limits, but as only two teams of the same country were able to qualify and the third combination of

Reinder Nummerdor Reinder Aart Nummerdor (born 10 September 1976) is a Dutch volleyball player who represented his native country at five consecutive Summer Olympics. Two times as a member of the indoor volleyball team in 2000 and 2004, and three more times after ...

and

Richard Schuil Richard Schuil (born 2 May 1973) is a former beach volleyball player from the Netherlands. Schuil was born in Leeuwarden, Friesland. A former volleyball player, he represented his native country in three consecutive Summer Olympics in volleybal ...

was not questionable to take the first ticket one of the teams had to be eliminated. Boersma and Ronnes eventually qualified to take part in

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* * * * 1980 births Living people Dutch men's volleyball players Dutch men's beach volleyball players Beach volleyball players at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic beach volleyball players for the Netherlands Volleyball players from Amsterdam Volleyball players from North Holland {{Netherlands-volleyball-bio-stub