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World Cup Varese: Gold for Simon van Dorp and Women’s Cover
2.05 pm: Simon van Dorp won in the skiff at the World Cup competition in Varese gold. The 28-year-old Amsterdammer was ahead of the American Jacob Plihal. The bronze went to Norwegian Jonas Slettemark Juel. Melvin Twellaar had to settle for sixth place. Van Dorp obtained bronze in the Skiff last August at the Olympic Games of Paris.
The female In Varese also assured himself of the gold. Tessa Dullemans, Willemijn Mulder, Margot Leeuwenburgh and Lisa Bruijnincx formed the Dutch team. Benthe Boonstra and Roos de Jong finished in the female Second.
Among the men, the two Dutch boats in the fourthly second (Mick Makker, Sander de Graaf, Pieter van Veen and Ralf Rienks) and third (Rik Rienks, Wibout Rustenburg, Jorn Salverda and Eli Brouwer). With Tinka Offereins, Hermijntje Drenth, Vera Sneijders and Lisanne van der Lelij, the women’s four achieved a bronze medal and the two -seater with Linn van Aanholt and Nika Vos silver.
Dutch volleyball players lose from Japan
11.04 am: The Dutch volleyball men lost Japan in the Nations League. The team of national coach Joel Banks suffered the third defeat in four duels in China: 0-3 (18-25, 23-25, 18-25). Orange also lost to Poland and China last week and defeated Turkey.
Banks had opted for another base team. Joris Berkhout started as a game distributor and Sil Meijs took the position of diagonally. Furthermore, Banks again chose Twan Wiltenburg and Luuc van der Ent (Midden), Bennie Tuinstra and Tom Koops (Passer-Lopers) and Jeffrey Klok (Libero).
“We are here with a new team. For some boys it is a new experience to play so many games in a short time,” Tuinstra said via the volleyball association. “It was tough, but I think we have shown a lot of good things. Now we have a week to recover and work hard, so that we can do better in the second week.”