Career
In 2009 at the World Junior Championship in Ogden (United States of America) Rick was the runner-up with a Silver medal. In February 2013, in Rzeszow (Polen), Van der Ven became also European Champion Indoor, again individually as well as with the Dutch team Van der Ven competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London in men"s individual archery.
In an upset victory, he convincingly beat top-seed and world-record holder Im Dong-hyun 7-1 in the round of 16.
After beating Kuo Cheng-Wei 6-0 in the quarterfinals, he came to a 5-5 draw in the semi-finals against Takaharu Furukawa, shooting 141 versus Furukawa’s 140. In the following shoot-off he shot a 9 while Furukawa shot a 10, relegating him to a bronze medal match against Dai Xiaoxiang.
Since 2009 Rick van der Ven is training at The Olympic Sportcentre in Papendal and is studying Engineering Mechanics in Arnhem. Rick van der Ven"s Website
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(English) Profiel op de website van World Archery Federation
(English) Profiel op de website van Londen 2012.