Rick van der Ven

In this Dutch name, the surname is van der Ven, not Ven.

Rick van der Ven (born 14 April 1991, in Oss)^[1] is a Dutch archer who started to practise archery at the age of 8.

Rick van der Ven

Rick van der Ven at the London Olympic Games in 2012
Personal information
Born	(1991-04-14) 14 April 1991 (age 34) Oss, Netherlands
Sport
Sport	Archery
Medal record Men's archery Representing  Netherlands World Championships 2013 Belek Team 2015 Copenhagen Individual World Cup 2014 Wroclaw Individual 2014 Lausanne Final Individual 2014 Shanghai Individual 2014 Shanghai Team 2015 Medellin Individual 2016 Shanghai Team European Championships 2012 Amsterdam Individual 2012 Amsterdam Team 2022 Munich Mixed team World Indoor Championships 2014 Nîmes Team Indoor World Cup 2014 Nîmes Individual European Indoor Championships 2013 Rzeszow Individual 2013 Rzeszow Team 2015 Koper Team European Games 2015 Baku Team Olympic Test Event 2015 Rio de Janeiro Team

In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in Ogden, Utah, Rick was the runner-up with a silver medal. In 2011 at the World Junior Championship in Legnica, Poland 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 Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam, Van der Ven became European Champion in Outdoor Archery, both individually and in the team event. In February 2013, in Rzeszów, 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 2012 Summer Olympics in London in men's individual archery. He was coached by Wietse van Alten, winner of the bronze medal in Sydney 2000.^[2] In an upset victory, he convincingly beat top-seed and world-record holder Im Dong-hyun 7–1 in the round of 16.^[3] After beating Kuo Cheng-Wei 6–0 in the quarterfinals, he came to a 5–5 draw in the semi-finals against Takaharu Furukawa, shooting 141 versus Furukawa's 140.^[4] In the following shoot-off he shot a 9 while Furukawa shot a 10, relegating him to a bronze medal match against Dai Xiaoxiang. 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.^[5] Since 2009 Rick van der Ven is training at The Olympic Sportcentre in Papendal and is studying Engineering Mechanics in Arnhem.

2016 Olympic Games

At the 2016 Olympic Games, van der Ven competed in both the individual and the men's team events.^[6] In the individual event, van der Ven was in 27th after the ranking round, and faced Patrick Huston in the first knock-out round, losing 4–6.^[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.^[6]

Results 2007

	Dutch Championship-Outdoor Cadet	(Netherlands)
	Face-2-Face Junior	Diessen (Netherlands)

Results 2008

	Dutch Championship-Outdoor Junior	(Netherlands)
	Face-2-Face Junior	Diessen (Netherlands)
	Junior Cup Team	Legnica (Polen)

Results 2009

	Junior World Championship-Outdoor	Ogden (USA)
	Junior Cup Team	Legnica (Polen)

Results 2010

	European Championship-Indoor Junior team	Porec (Kroatia)
	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	(Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Outdoor Junior	(Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)
	European Championship -Outdoor Junior team	Winnenden (Germany)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor Junior	(Netherlands)

Results 2011

	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	(Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor Junior	(Netherlands)
	World Championship-Outdoor Junior Mixed team	Legnica (Polen)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)
	World Championship-Outdoor Junior team	Legnica (Polen)
	EMAU GP-Outdoor Team	Antalya (Turkey)

Results 2012

	European Championship -Outdoor	Amsterdam (Netherlands)
	European Championship -Outdoor Team	Amsterdam (Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	(Netherlands)
	Berlin Open	Berlin (Germany)
	European Indoor Tournament	Nimes (France)

Results 2013

	European Championship -Indoor	Rzeszow (Polen)
	European Championship -Indoor Team	Rzeszow (Polen)
	World Cup-Indoor	Marrakesh(Morocco)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)
	World Championship-Outdoor Team	Belek-Antalya (Turkey)
	European Indoor Tournament	Nimes (France)
	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	Almere (Netherlands)
	Indoor World Cup Finale	Las Vegas (USA)

Results 2014

	Indoor World Cup Final	Las Vegas (U.S.A.)
	Indoor World Cup	Las Vegas (USA)
	World Cup	Wroclaw (Polen)
	Eucrea Archery Champions-Day	Sternenfels (Germany)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Field	Zuidlaren (Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	Weert (Netherlands)
	World Championship- Indoor Teams	Nimes (France)
	World Cup Final	Lausanne (Zwitserland)
	World Cup	Shanghai (China)
	World Cup Teams	Shanghai (China)

Results 2015

	European Championship-Indoor	Koper (Slovenia)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)
	World Championship-Outdoor	Copenhagen (Danmark)
	European Grand Prix Team	Marathon (Greece)
	Olympic Test Event Team	Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
	European Games Team	Baku (Azerbaijan)
	World Cup	Medellin (Colombia)

Results 2016

	World Cup Team	Shanghai (China)
	Kahraman Bagatir Team	Antalya (Turkey)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)

Results 2017

	Dutch Championship-Field	(Netherlands)
	GT-Open-Indoor	(Luxemburg)

Results 2018

	World Championship-Indoor Team	(USA)
	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	(Netherlands)
	Dutch Championship-Indoor	(Netherlands)
	GT-Open-Indoor	(Luxemburg)

Results 2019

	Dutch Championship-Outdoor	(Netherlands)

Results 2022

Van der Ven and Gabriela Schloesser won the gold medal in the mixed team recurve event at the 2022 European Archery Championships held in Munich, Germany.^[7][8]