Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991, in

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) is a Dutch

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In modern ...

who started to practise archery at the age of 8. In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in Ogden,

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, Rick was the runner-up with a silver medal. In 2011 at the World Junior Championship in

Legnica Legnica (; , ; ; ) is a city in southwestern Poland, in the central part of Lower Silesia, on the Kaczawa River and the Czarna Woda. As well as being the seat of the county, since 1992 the city has been the seat of the Diocese of Legnica. Le ...

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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

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, Van der Ven became European Champion in Outdoor Archery, both individually and in the team event. In February 2013, in

Rzeszów Rzeszów ( , ) is the largest city in southeastern Poland. It is located on both sides of the Wisłok River in the heartland of the Sandomierz Basin. Rzeszów is the capital of the Subcarpathian Voivodeship and the county seat, seat of Rzeszów C ...

, Van der Ven became also European Champion Indoor, again individually as well as with the Dutch team.

2012 Olympic Games

Van der Ven competed at the

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in London in men's individual archery. He was coached by

Wietse van Alten Wietse Cornelis van Alten (born 24 September 1978) is a retired archer from the Netherlands. Van Alten was born in Zaandam, in the municipality of Zaanstad. He has competed in archery since the age of seven. Van Alten's first major internatio ...

, winner of the bronze medal in Sydney 2000. In an upset victory, he convincingly beat top-seed and world-record holder

Im Dong-hyun Im Dong-hyun (; ; born 12 May 1986) is a South Korean archer. He competes for the South Korean national team and is a former world number one. He has 20/200 vision in his left eye and 20/100 vision in his right eye, meaning he needs to be ...

7–1 in the round of 16. After beating

Kuo Cheng-Wei Kuo Cheng-wei (; born 9 November 1983) is a Taiwanese professional archery, archer representing Chinese Taipei. He competed in Archery at the 2006 Asian Games and won a silver medal with the men's team consisting of himself ...

6–0 in the quarterfinals, he came to a 5–5 draw in the semi-finals against

Takaharu Furukawa is an archery athlete from Japan, competing in both individual and team archery events. He competed in the 2004, 2008, 2012, and 2020 Summer Olympics. He was the 2006 All-Japan National Champion, Archery career Furukawa began his archery career ...

, shooting 141 versus Furukawa's 140. In the following shoot-off he shot a 9 while Furukawa shot a 10, relegating him to a bronze medal match against

Dai Xiaoxiang Dai Xiaoxiang (; born December 15, 1990, in Xiamen) is a Chinese archer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics The 2012 Summer Olympics, officially the Games of the XXX Olympiad and also known as London 2012, were an international multi-sport even ...

. 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. Since 2009 Rick van der Ven is training at The Olympic Sportcentre in

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and is studying Engineering Mechanics in Arnhem.

2016 Olympic Games

At the

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, van der Ven competed in both the individual and the men's team events. In the individual event, van der Ven was in 27th after the ranking round, and faced

Patrick Huston Patrick Huston (born 5 January 1996) is a British two-time Olympian archer from Belfast, Northern Ireland. He captured three world championship titles under the youth level, and eventually competed as a member of the two person archery squad of ...

in the first knock-out round, losing 4–6. 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.

Results 2007

Results 2008

Results 2009

Results 2010

Results 2011

Results 2012

Results 2013

Results 2014

Results 2015

Results 2016

Results 2017

Results 2018

Results 2019

Results 2022

Van der Ven and

Gabriela Schloesser Gabriela Schloesser ( Bayardo, born 18 February 1994) is a Mexican-born Dutch recurve archer from Tijuana who represented Mexico before 2016, and has represented the Netherlands since 2017. In 2021, Schloesser and Steve Wijler won the silver ...

won the gold medal in the mixed team recurve event at the

2022 European Archery Championships The 2022 European Archery Championships were held from 6 to 12 June in Munich, Germany. Championships also served as qualification event for Archery at the 2023 European Games, 2023 European Games. Medal table Medal summary Recurve Compou ...

held in Munich, Germany.

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* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Ven, Rick van der 1991 births Living people Dutch male archers Archers at the 2012 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2015 European Games European Games medalists in archery European Games bronze medalists for the Netherlands Olympic archers for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Oss Archers from North Brabant World Archery Championships medalists 21st-century Dutch sportsmen