
Roel Boomstra (born 9 March 1993) is a Dutch
draughts
Checkers (American English), also known as draughts (; British English), is a group of strategy board games for two players which involve diagonal moves of uniform game pieces and mandatory captures by jumping over opponent pieces. Checkers ...
player and current world champion. He won the
Draughts World Championship match in
2016,
2018
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and 2022. In 2014 Boomstra won the
Draughts European Championship. He also won the
Dutch championship twice (2012, 2015). Boomstra holds the title of International Grandmaster. He was born in
Utrecht
Utrecht ( , , ) is the fourth-largest city and a municipality of the Netherlands, capital and most populous city of the province of Utrecht. It is located in the eastern corner of the Randstad conurbation, in the very centre of mainland Nethe ...
.
World championship
* 2011 (7th place)
*
2013
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(3rd place)
* 2015 (3rd place)
* 2016 (winner)
* 2017 (semifinal group C 5th-6th place)
* 2018 (winner)
* 2021 (3rd place)
* 2022 (winner)
Boomstra did not participate in the
2019 World Draughts Championship, because he decided to focus on his studies in physics.
European championship
* 2006 (63rd place)
* 2010 (8th place)
* 2012 (12th place)
* 2014 (1 place)
* 2016 (2 place)
Netherlands championship
* 2009 (3rd place)
* 2010 (2nd place)
* 2011 (2nd place)
* 2012 (1st place)
* 2013 (5th place)
* 2014 (2nd place)
* 2015 (1st place)
* 2018 (2nd place)
References
External links
Roel Boomstraprofile at KNDB
Roel Boomstraprofile at
FMJD
1993 births
Living people
Dutch draughts players
Players of international draughts
Sportspeople from Utrecht (city)
21st-century Dutch people
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