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| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Born | 25 August 2002 |
| Sport | |
| Sport | Athletics |
| Event | Discus |
| Achievements and titles | |
| Personal best | Discus 67.18 (2025) |
Ruben Rolvink (born 25 August 2002) is a Dutch discus thrower. He is a multiple-time champion at the Dutch Athletics Championships [1]
He is from Naaldwijk and is two metres tall, and left-handed. He started in athletics at the age of nine-years old, and also played volleyball and field hockey. He studied sports marketing in Deventer. His brother Yannick also competes as a discus thrower. [2] [3]
He is a member of Olympus '70, and began to have success at the senior level at the age of 18 years-old; He won the Dutch Athletics Championships for the first time in Breda in June 2021 with a throw of 59.18 metres. [4] [5] He set the Dutch junior record of 68.76 metres for the 1.75 kg discus throw held previously by Rutger Smith (63.44), since 1999, before winning the Dutch national title again in 2022. In July 2023, he set a new personal best with the 2 kg discus with throw of 62.94 meters, in Bergen op Zoom. He won his third consecutive Dutch title in 2023 and competed at the 2023 European Athletics U23 Championships in Espoo, Finland. [3] [2]
He competed at the senior 2024 European Athletics Championships in Rome, Italy, with his best throw of 58.74 metres in qualification. [6] He was runner-up to Shaquille Emanuelson at the 2024 Dutch Athletics Championships in Hengelo in June 2024 with a throw of 55.97 metres. [7]
He won the 2025 Dutch Athletics Championships again, in Hengelo, in August 2025. [8] He was selected for the Dutch team for the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan. [9]
