Robin Ramaekers
Belgian archer (born 1994)
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Robin Ramaekers (born 26 October 1994) is a Belgian competitive archer.[1] He competed as a member of the Belgian archery squad in major international tournaments, spanning the World Championships, the 2015 European Games, and the 2016 Summer Olympics.[2] Ramaekers currently trains at a local archery range in his native Tongeren (Dutch: Schutters Handboog Tongeren, SHT), under the tutelage of his coach Francis Notenboom, a former Olympian from the 1988 edition.[3]
At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Ramaekers became the first Belgian archer to compete in an Olympic tournament since 2000, shooting only in the men's individual recurve.[4] First, he recorded a total score of 654 points, including 25 targets of a perfect ten, to seal the forty-second seed from a field of 64 archers in the classification round.[5] Heading to the knockout stage on the third day of the Games, Ramaekers firmly disposed the hard-charging Australian Ryan Tyack at 6–2 in the opening round, before he dropped his subsequent match on three straight sets to the Spaniard and tenth-seeded archer Juan Ignacio Rodríguez.[6][7]
