Jan-Cor van der Greef

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Jan-Cor van der Greef
Personal information
Full nameCornelis Huig Jan van der
Greef
NationalityFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Born (1983-04-06) 6 April 1983 (age 42)
Vianen, The Netherlands
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
Sport Shooting
EventSkeet (SK125)
ClubSchietvereniging de Snip [1]
Coached byNella Heemskerk [1]

Cornelis Huig Jan "Jan-Cor" van der Greef (born 6 April 1983 in Vianen) is a Dutch sport shooter. [2] He has competed for the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics, and also established a junior world record for a fifth-place finish at the 2003 European Championships in Brno, Czech Republic. [1] Van der Greef is a member of Snip Shooting Club (Dutch : Schietvereniging de Snip) and a resident athlete of the Royal Netherlands Shooting Federation (Dutch : Koninklijke Nederlandse Schietsport Associatie, KNSA), where he trains under head coach Nelia Heemskerk. [3]

Van der Greef qualified for the Dutch shooting team, as a 21-year-old, in the men's skeet at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. He had registered a minimum qualifying score of 123 to join with his fellow shooter and then incoming five-time Olympian Hennie Dompeling, and fill in the second Olympic quota for the Netherlands from his fiery fifth-place finish at the European Championships a year earlier. [4] [5] A newcomer to the international competition, Van der Greef shot 115 targets out of a possible 125 in the qualifying round to force a three-way tie with Great Britain's Richard Brickell and Egypt's Amr El-Gaiar for thirty-fourth place from an immense field of forty-one shooters. [4] [6]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "ISSF Profile – Jan-Cor van der Greef". ISSF . Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan-Cor van der Greef". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. ↑ "'Als zoon van een jager vond ik het schieten nooit wreed'" ["As the son of the hunter, I found shooting not so cruel."] (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. 17 August 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. 1 2 Buddenberg, Fred (23 August 2004). "Voor de ervaren Dompeling is Athene geen mooie ervaring" [For the experienced Dompeling, Athens is not an incredible experience] (in Dutch). Trouw . Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. ↑ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. ↑ "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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