Olof van der Meulen
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Full name | Roelof Antonius van der Meulen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nickname | Roelof van der Meulen | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | Sneek, Friesland, Netherlands | 8 November 1968||||||||||||||||||||||
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Roelof ("Olof") Antonius van der Meulen (born 8 November 1968 in Sneek, Friesland) is a retired volleyball player from the Netherlands, who represented his native country in two consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1992 in Barcelona, Spain.
After having won the silver medal in 1992, Van der Meulen's finest hour came in 1996, when he won the gold medal in Atlanta, United States with the Dutch Men's Volleyball National Team by defeating Italy in the final (3-2).
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- (in Dutch) Dutch Olympic Committee
Categories:
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Dutch men's volleyball players
- Volleyball players at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Volleyball players at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Olympic volleyball players of the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Friesland
- People from Sneek
- Olympic medalists in volleyball
- Dutch people stubs
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics