Mike Schloesser (born 15 january 1994 in

Heerlen Heerlen (; ) is a city and a Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the southeast of the Netherlands. It is the third largest settlement proper in the province of Limburg (Netherlands), Limburg. Measured as municipality, it is the f ...

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) is a compound archer 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 ...

. In 2015, he was the first person to hit a perfect 600/600, hence his nickname ''Mister Perfect''. In December 2023 he surpassed Sara López as the longest-tenured world number one. Both had been in the top three since the beginning of the 2015 season. Schloesser had been holding the number one position in the world ranking since 24 May 2021. In March 2024 he broke the record for the longest consecutive days ranked number one. Schloesser has won three medals at the

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, competed in the

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and in the 2013 World Archery Championships he qualified 5th in the same event. He also competed in the men's team compound and mixed team compound event for Netherlands. He won the gold medal in the men's individual compound event at the

2019 European Games The 2nd European Games 2019 (, ''Jeŭrapiejskija huĺni 2019''; , ''Yevropeyskiye igry 2019''), also known as the 2019 European Games or Minsk 2019 (; ), were held in Minsk, Belarus, from 21 June to 30 June 2019. The games featured 200 events in ...

held in Minsk, Belarus. Schloesser and Sanne de Laat also won the silver medal in the mixed team compound event. In 2020, Schloesser won the silver medal in the men's individual compound event at the

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held in Yankton, United States. In February 2022, Schloesser won the gold medal in both the men's compound and men's team compound events at the 2022 European Indoor Archery Championships held in Laško, Slovenia. In March 2022, he won also the men's compound event at the Dutch National Indoor Archery Championships. In April 2022, he won the gold medal in the men's compound event at the Antalya, Turkey event in the

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. Schloesser won the gold medal in the men's individual compound event at the

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held in Munich, Germany. He also won the silver medal in the men's team compound event. Schloesser and Sanne de Laat won the gold medal in the mixed team compound event at the 2024 European Archery Championships held in Essen, Germany. He also won the bronze medal in the men's individual compound event.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Schloesser, Mike 1994 births Living people Dutch male archers Sportspeople from Heerlen World Archery Championships medalists Archers at the 2019 European Games Archers at the 2023 European Games European Games medalists in archery European Games gold medalists for the Netherlands European Games silver medalists for the Netherlands World Games silver medalists for the Netherlands World Games medalists in archery Medalists at the 2022 World Games 21st-century Dutch sportsmen