van den BERG Sjef

Netherlands
Archery
14 Apr 1995
26
Male

Events and Medals

Discipline Event Rank Medal
ARC Archery Men's Individual 17
Men's Team
NED
Netherlands
 4

Schedule

Change
Start Time Location Event Status
Yumenoshima Ranking Field
Men's Individual Ranking Round
Finished
Yumenoshima Final Field
Men's Team Quarterfinal
#44
GBR
Great Britain
3
NED
Netherlands
5
Finished
Yumenoshima Final Field
Men's Team Semifinal
#46
TPE
Chinese Taipei
6
NED
Netherlands
0
Finished
Yumenoshima Final Field
Men's Team Bronze Medal Match
#47
JPN
Japan
5
NED
Netherlands
4
Finished
Yumenoshima Final Field
Men's Individual 1/32 Eliminations
#68
FRA
VALLADONT JCVALLADONT Jean-Charles
3
NED
van den BERG Svan den BERG Sjef
7
Finished
Yumenoshima Final Field
Men's Individual 1/16 Eliminations
#71
BRA
D'ALMEIDA MD'ALMEIDA Marcus
7
NED
van den BERG Svan den BERG Sjef
1
Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

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Olympic Games
YearLocationIndividualTeam M
2016Rio de Janeiro, BRA47

World Championships
YearLocationIndividualTeam MTeam X
2019's-Hertogenbosch, NED742
2017Mexico City, MEX99-
2015Copenhagen, DEN9625
2013Antalya, TUR17221

European Games
YearLocationIndividualTeam MTeam X
2019Minsk, BLR925

European Championships
YearLocationIndividualTeam M
2021Antalya, TUR171
2018Legnica, POL176

World Cup Final
YearLocationIndividual
2019Moscow, RUS3
2017Rome, ITA5
2016Odense, DEN2

World Cup (Ranking)
RankEventYear
4Individual2019
7Individual2017
9Individual2018

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017
RankYearEventLocation
12021Mixed TeamLausanne, SUI
22021Mixed TeamParis, FRA
42019IndividualShanghai, CHN
42019IndividualMedellin, COL
42017IndividualShanghai, CHN
52019IndividualAntalya, TUR
62018IndividualAntalya, TUR
72021Mixed TeamGuatemala City, GUA
72017IndividualBerlin, GER
92021IndividualGuatemala City, GUA
92019Mixed TeamMedellin, COL
92018IndividualBerlin, GER
92018IndividualSalt Lake City, UT, USA
92018IndividualShanghai, CHN
92018Mixed TeamBerlin, GER
92018Mixed TeamSalt Lake City, UT, USA
92017IndividualSalt Lake City, UT, USA


Legend
M - Men, W - Women, X - Mixed
:
Drawing, playing games, spending time with friends, being outdoors. (worldarchery.org, 01 May 2016)
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Athlete
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Partner Kristin Davies
:
Dutch, English
:
HBV Ontspanning [Sint-Oedenrode, NED]
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Ron van der Hoff [national], NED
:
Right (worldarchery.org, 01 May 2016)
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His brother Piet represented the Netherlands in archery at the 2015 World Youth Championships in Yankton, SD, United States of America. His partner Kristin Davies competed in the sport for Norway at the 2014 European Youth Championships in Ljubljana, Slovenia. (SportsDeskOnline, 20 Apr 2020; Kristin Davies' Facebook profile, 02 Dec 2019; worldarchery.org, 18 Jul 2015, 01 Jan 2014)
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2012 for Netherlands (sjefvandenberg.com, 02 Dec 2015)
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He first tried archery at age four. (sjefvandenberg.com, 02 Dec 2015)
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"I started shooting a bow together with my father. He was already a member of an archery club and took me with him when I was age four. Since we had to shoot through windows, I had to stand on a barstool." (sjefvandenberg.com, 02 Dec 2015)

General Interest

Olympic qualifying results
He helped secure a qualification spot for the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo as a result of the Netherlands' fourth-place finish in the team recurve competition at the 2019 World Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. (ad.nl, 26 Jun 2019)

Draw length (in)
31.5 (worldarchery.org, 14 Apr 2019)

Draw weight (lbs)
53 (worldarchery.org, 14 Apr 2019)

General
ATHLETE REPRESENTATIVE
In 2019 he was elected to Athletes' Committee of World Archery as the recurve men's representative. He is due to serve a four-year term. (worldarchery.org, 19 Jun 2019)

EVIL EYE
He was unwell ahead of the qualification round for the individual event at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. "The day before the qualification, I got really sick and had to throw up. While doing that a blood vessel popped. I did not need my glasses, therefore everyone saw the evil eye." (ONS, 08 Aug 2016)

Legend
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Gold Medal Event
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Silver Medal Event
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Bronze Medal Event
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