Career
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, Czechoslovakian Republic. 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.
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.