Robin Ramaekers

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Robin Ramaekers
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Full nameRobin Ramaekers
Born (1996-01-05) 5 January 1996 (age 28)
Tongeren, Belgium
Height1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Weight78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of Belgium (civil).svg  Belgium
Sport Archery
Event Recurve
ClubSchutters Handboog Tongeren
Coached byFrancis Notenboom
Updated on 22 February 2017

Robin Ramaekers (born 26 October 1994) is a Belgian competitive archer. [1] He competed as a member of the Belgian archery squad in major international tournaments, spanning the World Championships, the 2015 European Games, and the 2016 Summer Olympics. [2] Ramaekers currently trains at a local archery range in his native Tongeren (Dutch : Schutters Handboog Tongeren, SHT), under the tutelage of his coach Francis Notenboom, a former Olympian from the 1988 edition. [3]

At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Ramaekers became the first Belgian archer to compete in an Olympic tournament since 2000, shooting only in the men's individual recurve. [4] First, he recorded a total score of 654 points, including 25 targets of a perfect ten, to seal the forty-second seed from a field of 64 archers in the classification round. [5] Heading to the knockout stage on the third day of the Games, Ramaekers firmly disposed the hard-charging Australian Ryan Tyack at 6–2 in the opening round, before he dropped his subsequent match on three straight sets to the Spaniard and tenth-seeded archer Juan Ignacio Rodríguez. [6] [7]

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References

  1. ↑ "Robin Ramaekers". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  2. ↑ "Olympic archery athletes preview: #4 Europe". World Archery Federation. 31 July 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Premier en action, Robin Ramaekers relance la grande tradition des archers belges" [First in action; Robin Ramaekers revives the illustrious tradition of Belgian archers] (in French). RTBF. 4 August 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Boogschutter Robin Ramaekers heeft selectie op zak voor Rio" [Archer Robin Ramaekers pocketed selection for Rio] (in Dutch). Het Nieuwsblad. 24 June 2016. Retrieved 22 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Boogschutter Ramaekers eindigt 42e in kwalificatieronde" [Archer Ramaekers ranked no. 42 in the qualifying round] (in Dutch). Sporza. 5 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Archery: Men's Individual Round of 32". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 23 February 2017.
  7. ↑ "Boogschutter Robin Ramaekers niet naar achtste finales in Rio: "Met opgeheven hoofd"" [Archer Robin Ramaekers failed to reach the round of 16, "with his head"] (in Dutch). Het Nieuwsblad. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.


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