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Dutch sport shooter In this Dutch name, the surname is van der Greef, not Greef.
Jan-Cor van der Greef
Personal information
Full nameCornelis Huig Jan van der
Greef
Nationality Netherlands
Born (1983-04-06) 6 April 1983 (age 41)
Vianen, The Netherlands
Height1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Weight85 kg (187 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
EventSkeet (SK125)
ClubSchietvereniging de Snip
Coached byNella Heemskerk

Cornelis Huig Jan "Jan-Cor" van der Greef (born 6 April 1983 in Vianen) is a Dutch sport shooter. 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, Czech Republic. Van der Greef is a member of Snip Shooting Club (Dutch: Schietvereniging de Snip) and a resident athlete of the Royal Netherlands Shooting Federation (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Schietsport Associatie, KNSA), where he trains under head coach Nelia Heemskerk.

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.

References

  1. ^ "ISSF Profile – Jan-Cor van der Greef". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan-Cor van der Greef". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. "'Als zoon van een jager vond ik het schieten nooit wreed'" ["As the son of the hunter, I found shooting not so cruel."] (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. 17 August 2009. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. ^ Buddenberg, Fred (23 August 2004). "Voor de ervaren Dompeling is Athene geen mooie ervaring" [For the experienced Dompeling, Athens is not an incredible experience] (in Dutch). Trouw. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  6. "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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