Personal information | |
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Full name | Cornelis Huig Jan van der Greef |
Nationality | Netherlands |
Born | Vianen, The Netherlands | 6 April 1983
Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) |
Weight | 85 kg (187 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Shooting |
Event | Skeet ( SK125) |
Club | Schietvereniging de Snip [1] |
Coached by | Nella Heemskerk [1] |
Cornelis Huig Jan "Jan-Cor" van der Greef (born 6 April 1983 in Vianen) is a Dutch sport shooter. [2] 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. [1] 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. [3]
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. [4] [5] 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. [4] [6]