Jan Groenendijk (born 7 September 1998) is a Dutch

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grandmaster who ranked second at the

2015 World Draughts Championship The 2015 Draughts World Championship, World Draughts Championship at the international draughts was held November 8–24, 2015 at Emmen, Netherlands, Emmen, Netherlands International Draughts Federation FMJD. Twenty players were competing in the ...

in Emmen and at the 2023 World Draughts Championship in

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. Winner Draughts European Championship (2022, 2024). Winner

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- 2015. He also won the Dutch championship four times (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024). Groenendijk is an International grandmaster.

World championship

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

(2nd place) * 2016 match (2nd place) *

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

(7th place in semifinal B) *

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

(4 place) *

2021 Like the year 2020, 2021 was also heavily defined by the COVID-19 pandemic, due to the emergence of multiple Variants of SARS-CoV-2, COVID-19 variants. The major global rollout of COVID-19 vaccines, which began at the end of 2020, continued ...

(4 place) *

2023 Catastrophic natural disasters in 2023 included the Lists of 21st-century earthquakes, 5th-deadliest earthquake of the 21st century 2023 Turkey–Syria earthquakes, striking Turkey and Syria, leaving up to 62,000 people dead; Cyclone Freddy ...

(2 place) * 2024 match (1st place) *

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

(1 place)World championship 2025.
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European championship

* 2012 (26th place) * 2014 (9th place) * 2018 (11th place) * 2022 (1 place) * 2024 (1 place)

External links

Profile Jan Groenendijk
at site

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References

1998 births Living people Dutch draughts players Players of international draughts Sportspeople from Wageningen {{Board-game-stub