Jan Groenendijk (draughts player)

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Jan Groenendijk
Jan Groenendijk - Draughts World Championship 2015.jpg
Groenendijk at the 2015 World Championship
Personal information
Born (1998-09-07) 7 September 1998 (age 27)
Wageningen, Netherlands
Sport
Country Netherlands
Sport Draughts
RankGrandmaster (2016)
Achievements and titles
Highest world rankingNo. 1 (July 2024) [1]
Personal best2458 (January 2025, rating) [1]

Jan Groenendijk (born 7 September 1998) is a Dutch draughts grandmaster and the reigning Draughts World Champion. He is a two-time world champion, winning the title in 2024 and 2025. Groenendijk has won the European Draughts Championship twice, (2022, 2024), [2] the Salou Open (2015), [3] and the Dutch championship four times (2020, 2022, 2023, 2024). [4]

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World championship

European championship

References

  1. 1 2 "Groenendijk Jan". FMJD.org. Archived from the original on 20 January 2025. Retrieved 13 January 2025.
  2. ↑ "XXI European Championship". FMJD.org. Archived from the original on 9 October 2022. Retrieved 24 December 2023.
  3. ↑ "Salou Open - 2015". KNDB.nl (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 12 January 2026. Retrieved 12 November 2025.
  4. ↑ "Nederlands Kampioenschap Algemeen KNDB 2024". KNDB.nl (in Dutch).
  5. ↑ "Worldchampionship Yamoussoukro 2019". KNDB.nl (in Dutch).
  6. ↑ "World Championship 2023". FMJD.org. Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 14 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "World Championship 2025". FMJD.org.
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