Sjef van den Berg

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Sjef van den Berg
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Van den Berg at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Personal information
Full nameSjef van den Berg
Born (1995-04-14) 14 April 1995 (age 29)
Heeswijk-Dinther, Netherlands
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight75 kg (165 lb)
Sport
CountryFlag of the Netherlands.svg  Netherlands
Sport Archery
Event Recurve
ClubHBV Ontspanning
Coached byRon van der Hoff (2010–)
Achievements and titles
Highest world ranking2 (2 May 2016)
Medal record
Men's archery
Representing the Netherlands
World Championships
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 's-Hertogenbosch Mixed Team
World Cup
Gold medal icon (G initial).svg 2021 Lausanne Mixed Team
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2021 Paris Mixed Team
European Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2015 Baku Individual
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2019 Minsk Team
Bronze medal icon (B initial).svg2015 Baku Team
Updated on 2019

Sjef van den Berg (born 14 April 1995) is a retired Dutch competitive archer. [1] He has won a total of two medals (a silver in the individual recurve and a bronze for the Dutch team) at the 2015 European Games, and eventually finished fourth in the men's individual archery at the 2016 Summer Olympics. [2] [3] Van der Berg currently trains at HBV Ontspanning in Sint-Oedenrode, under the tutelage of his coach Ron van der Hoff, a former Olympian at the Athens 2004 edition. [4]

Born and raised in southern town of Heeswijk-Dinther, van den Berg took up archery as a four-year-old, and then made his international debut in 2010. [2]

Van den Berg rose to prominence in the international archery scene, when he progressed to the individual final at the 2015 European Games in Baku, losing the gold to the Spaniard Miguel Alvariño with a set score 1–7. [5] Furthermore, Van den Berg delivered the Dutch threesome of Mitch Dielemans and London 2012 Olympian Rick van der Ven a bronze medal in the team recurve. [6]

In July 2015, Van den Berg headed up the Dutch team at the World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark, where they obtained a full quota place for Rio 2016, booking their country's maiden appearance in an Olympic archery competition since Athens 2004. [7] He continued his inexorable rise with a creditable runner-up effort at the Olympic test event two months later in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, quickly vaulting him to the top ten of the world rankings in men's archery. [8]

Van den Berg was selected to compete for the Dutch squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. [7] First, he led the Dutch trio by compiling a total of 1,981 points to finish ninth in the ranking round, along with his individual score of 684 for the fourth seed heading to the knockout stage. [9] In the men's team recurve, van den Berg, along with his teammates Dielemans and van der Ven, managed to trounce the Spaniards in the opening round, before conceding a 2–6 defeat to the eventual champion South Korea in the quarterfinals . [10] While his compatriots fell out early in the elimination rounds of the individual recurve, Van den Berg survived through every match until the semifinals, where he lost to the Frenchman Jean-Charles Valladont in a 3–7 playoff. Despite his semifinal exit, Van den Berg seized a chance to become the Netherlands' first Olympic medalist in archery after 16 years, but abruptly ended his run in a 2–6 defeat from the U.S. archer Brady Ellison. [11] [12]

In 2021, he won the gold medal in the men's team recurve event at the European Archery Championships held in Antalya, Turkey. [13]

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References

  1. ↑ "Sjef van den Berg". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  2. 1 2 "Van den Berg arrowing towards Rio". Olympics. 12 July 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  3. ↑ "Handboogschutter Van den Berg mist brons" [Archer Van den Berg missed the bronze] (in Dutch). Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. 12 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  4. ↑ "Van den Berg wint bij handboogschieten" [Van den Berg wins at the archery meet] (in Dutch). Brabants Dagblad. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  5. ↑ "Handboogschutter Van den Berg pakt zilver" [Archer Van den Berg takes the silver] (in Dutch). Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. 22 June 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  6. ↑ "Brons voor de handboogschutters op Europese Spelen" [Bronze for the archers at the European Games] (in Dutch). NOC*NSF. 18 June 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  7. 1 2 "Sjef, Rick and Mitch to represent Netherlands in Rio". World Archery. 22 June 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  8. ↑ "World Champion Woojin takes test event title in Rio". World Archery. 22 September 2015. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  9. ↑ "Handboogschutter Van den Berg vierde, Kim schiet wereldrecord" [Archer Van den Berg finished fourth, Kim shot for world record] (in Dutch). Nederlandse Omroep Stichting. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  10. ↑ "Archery: Men's Team Quarterfinal". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  11. ↑ "Archery: Men's Individual Bronze Medal Match". Rio2016.com. Rio 2016 Organising Committee for the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  12. ↑ "Ellison regroups to win archery bronze, earning 2nd Rio medal". ESPN. 13 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
  13. ↑ "2021 European Archery Championships Results Book" (PDF). World Archery Europe. Archived (PDF) from the original on 24 June 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
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