Roy van den Berg (born 8 September 1988) is a Dutch track cyclist, who most recently rode for UCI Track Team . He was a part of a team that won the gold medal at the 2020 Summer olympics in the

team sprint The team sprint (also sometimes known as the Olympic sprint) is a track cycling event. Despite its name, it is not a conventional cycling sprint event – it is a three-rider team time trial held over three laps of a velodrome. The riders use a ...

event, setting the new Olympic record in the finals. He also competed at the

UCI Track Cycling World Championships The UCI Track Cycling World Championships are the set of world championship events for the various disciplines and distances in track cycling. They are regulated by the Union Cycliste Internationale. Before 1900, they were administered by the UCI ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

2012 2012 was designated as: *International Year of Cooperatives *International Year of Sustainable Energy for All Events January *January 4 – The Cicada 3301 internet hunt begins. * January 12 – Peaceful protests begin in the R ...

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 ...

and

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and won the silver medal at the

2016 UEC European Track Championships The 2016 UEC European Track Championships was the seventh edition of the elite UEC European Track Championships in track cycling and took place at the Velodrome de Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France, between 19 and 23 ...

in the sprint.

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* * 1988 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Sportspeople from Kampen, Overijssel Dutch cyclists at the UCI Track Cycling World Championships European Championships (multi-sport event) gold medalists UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men) Dutch track cyclists Cyclists at the 2019 European Games European Games medalists in cycling European Games gold medalists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic gold medalists in cycling Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Olympics Medalists at the 2024 Summer Olympics 21st-century Dutch sportsmen Cyclists from Overijssel {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1980s-stub

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