Rob Druppers
Dutch middle-distance runner
![]() Rob Druppers in 1983 | |
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Born | (1962-04-29) 29 April 1962 (age 62) Utrecht, the Netherlands |
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb) |
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Sport | Middle-distance running |
Club | Hercules, Dordrecht |
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Robertus "Rob" Johannes Druppers (born 29 April 1962) is a former Dutch middle distance runner, who won the silver medal in the 800 m event at the 1983 World Championships. He set a Dutch 800 m record at 1:43.56 in Cologne in 1985, and a 1000 m record of 2:15.23 in his home town Utrecht in the same year. Druppers competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics, where he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 800 m.[1]
Competition record
Year | Competition | Venue | Position | Event | Notes |
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1982 | European Championships | Athens, Greece | 5th | 800 m | 1:47.06 |
1983 | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | semi-final (dnf) | 800 m | 1:49.28 (heat) |
World Championships | Helsinki, Finland | 2nd | 800 m | 1:44.20 | |
1986 | European Championships | Stuttgart, West Germany | 4th | 800 m | 1:45.53 |
1987 | European Indoor Championships | Liévin, France | 1st | 800 m | 1:48.12 |
World Indoor Championships | Indianapolis, United States | 8th | 800 m | 1:48.89 | |
World Championships | Rome, Italy | heats | 800 m | 1:50.58 | |
1988 | European Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | 2nd | 800 m | 1:49.45 |
Olympic Games | Seoul, South Korea | quarter-final | 800 m | 1:46.91 | |
1989 | European Indoor Championships | The Hague (Netherlands) | 2nd | 800 m | 1:48.96 |
World Indoor Championships | Budapest, Hungary | semi-final | 800 m | 1:49.70 |
DNF = did not finish
Personal bests
Outdoor
- 800 metres – 1:43.56 (Cologne 1985)
- 1000 metres – 2:15.23 (Utrecht 1985)
- 1500 metres – 3:35.07 (1985)
Indoor
- 800 metres – 1:46.29 (Stuttgart 1987)
- 1000 metres – 2:16.4 (The Hague 1988)
References
- ^ Rob Druppers. sports-reference.com
External links
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- Rob Druppers at World Athletics
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Preceded by | Herman van Leeuwen Cup 1983 1985 | Succeeded by |
Preceded by | Succeeded by | |
Preceded by | Dutch Sportsman of the Year 1983 | Succeeded by |
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Japan Championships in Athletics men's 800 metres champions
- 1913–15: 880 yards
- 1913: Ikichi Ide
- 1914–15: Ichiro Sawada
- 1916: Taku Gishiro
- 1917: Shinsaku Yamauchi
- 1918–19: Iwao Saiki
- 1920: Takeharu Sawada
- 1921: Kikuo Toda
- 1922: Torashiro Sakairi
- 1923: Tokushige Noto
- 1924: Not held
- 1925: Naomon Nawada
- 1926: Hideo Okada
- 1927: Yukiyoshi Kuwata
- 1928: Hideo Okada
- 1929–30: Shin Hisatomi
- 1931: Toyozo Tenchika
- 1932: Akihide Fujieda
- 1933: Shusuke Hosaka
- 1934: Kumao Aochi
- 1935: Akihide Fujieda
- 1936: Toshio Kinoshita
- 1937: Toshinao Tomie
- 1938: Isanji Omori
- 1939–40: Masami Ishida
- 1941: Not held
- 1942: Fumio Hirai
- 1943–45: Not held
- 1946: Susumu Takahashi
- 1947: Fumio Hirai
- 1948: Norihito Sugawara
- 1949: Yukio Kikuchi
- 1950: Ichiro Tao
- 1951: Juno Mizuki
- 1952: Yoshitaka Muroya
- 1953: Hiroaki Chosa
- 1954–55: Yoshitaka Muroya
- 1956–57: Norio Okayama
- 1958: Rei Watanabe
- 1959: Kuniaki Watanabe
- 1960–61: Aoi Morimoto
- 1962: Katsu Nakanishi
- 1963: Aoi Morimoto
- 1964: Kiyoshi Odaka
- 1965: Norihiko Tsukagoshi
- 1966–67: Satsuo Iwashita
- 1968: Jun Nagai
- 1969: Toru Ota
- 1970: Kazuyoshi Mizuno
- 1971–72: Toru Ota
- 1973: Kazuyoshi Mizuno
- 1974–78: Takashi Ishii
- 1979: Toshifumi Shigenari
- 1980: Toshihiro Funaki
- 1981–82: Yutaka Hirai
- 1983: Toru Shioda
- 1984: Yutaka Hirai
- 1985: Kazumitsu Hirata
- 1986: Toru Shioda
- 1987: Yu Hoshino
- 1988: Yasushi Kano
- 1989: Dieudonné Kwizera (BDI)
- 1990: Rob Druppers (NED)
- 1991: Pablo Squella (CHI)
- 1992: Yoshito Konno
- 1993: José Luíz Barbosa (BRA)
- 1994–95 Yumasa Ono
- 1996: Yoshiharu Senba
- 1997–98: Tomohiro Kitamura
- 1999: Manabu Isshi
- 2000: Hiroshi Sasano
- 2001: Masaharu Nakano
- 2002–03: Hiroshi Sasano
- 2004: Naoto Suzuki
- 2005: Yoshihiro Shimodaira
- 2006–07: Masato Yokota
- 2008: Takeshi Kuchino
- 2009–12: Masato Yokota
- 2013–18: Sho Kawamoto
- 2019: Aaron Tatsunami Clay
- 2020: Setoguchi Daichi
- 2021: Kazuki Tamogami
- 2022: Mikuto Kaneko
- 2023: Sho Kawamoto
- 2024: Ko Ochiai
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