Ivo Snijders, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Ivo Snijders

Dutch rower

Date of Birth: 09-Sep-1980

Place of Birth: Mijdrecht, Utrecht, Netherlands

Profession: rower

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo


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About Ivo Snijders

  • Ivo Snijders (born 9 September 1980 in Mijdrecht) is a rower from the Netherlands.Snijders started rowing in 1995 and made his international senior debut in the lightweight fours at the 2000 World Championships in Zagreb.
  • Together with Gerard van der Linden, Dylan van der Linde and Coen Eggenkamp he finished on the 9th position.
  • Without Van der Linden, but with Tristan Kramers they improved their result to a fifth position in the 2001 Rowing World Cup meeting in Munich.
  • The quartet finished in 7th position at the World Championships in Luzern after winning the B-final.
  • In 2002 Snijders totally focused on the lightweight double sculls together with Gerard van der Linden.
  • They became ninth and seventh in the World Cup meetings in Hazewinkel and Luzern before winning the silver medal at the Under-23 World Championships.
  • At the senior World Championships in Sevilla they became 10th.Snijders, Van der Linden, Karel Dormans as well as Joeri de Groot started a new adventure in the lightweight coxless fours in 2003, finishing second in the Munich World Cup and fourth in Luzern.
  • These pre tournament results earned them a place for the World Championships in Milan where they won the silver medal.
  • Their next aim was to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics and with a seventh place in Poznan, a fourth in Munich and a fifth in Luzern they succeeded and they could pack their bags for Athens.
  • They aimed for a medal at the Olympics, but came just short and had to be satisfied with a fourth place.Snijders decided to stop with rowing, but made a comeback in 2007 when he entered a lightweight fours boat with Wolter Blankert, Arnoud Greidanus and Gerard van der Linden in Linz where they finished in fourth position.
  • With Roeland Lievens and Paul1 Drewes as replacements of Blankert and Greidanus they improved their result to a third place in Luzern and they created some high expectations for the World Championships in Munich.
  • They could not keep up with the expectations and only finished in a tenth position in Germany.For the 2008 season he rowed with Greidanus, Van der Linden and Marshall Godschalk to an eight place at the World Cup in Munich.
  • After they finished ninth in Luzern Greidanus was replaced by Paul Drewes and in Poznan they rowed to a fifth place, which meant qualification for the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.

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