Epke Zonderland

Epke Zonderland
Epke Zonderland with his Olympic gold medal from 2012
Personal information
Surname:	Epke Jan Zonderland
Nationality:	Netherlands
discipline	Apparatus gymnastics
Special device / s:	Horizontal bar
Society:	Turncentrum Sportstad Heerenveen
Trainer:	Daniel Knibbeler
Birthday:	April 16, 1986
Place of birth:	Lemmer
Size:	173 cm
Weight:	68 kg
Medals
Olympic games gold 2012 London Horizontal bar  World championships silver 2009 London Horizontal bar silver 2010 Rotterdam Horizontal bar gold 2013 Antwerp Horizontal bar gold 2014 Nanning Horizontal bar silver 2017 Montreal Horizontal bar gold 2018 Doha Horizontal bar  European championships bronze 2007 Amsterdam Ingots silver 2010 Birmingham Horizontal bar gold 2011 Berlin Horizontal bar silver 2011 Berlin Ingots gold 2014 Sofia Horizontal bar bronze 2014 Sofia Ingots silver 2018 Glasgow Horizontal bar

Epke Jan Zonderland (born April 16, 1986 in Lemmer ) is a Dutch gymnast .

Zonderland claims to have started gymnastics at the age of four, after his sister Geeske (* 1981) and his brothers Herre (* 1983) and Johan (* 1984) did it. His brothers also ran for the Dutch national team. Since injuries before the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , Zonderland began to concentrate on parallel bars and horizontal bars . In Beijing, he finished seventh in the bar finals.

After winning two silver medals at world championships (2009 and 2010) and the European championship title in 2011 on his parade device, he won the Olympic gold medal on the horizontal bar at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London . It was the first Olympic medal in men's gymnastics for the Netherlands. Zonderland showed an error-free performance with a high degree of difficulty (7.9), which included three twists in a row and in the end earned him a score of 16.533 points. A year later he succeeded in winning the title on the horizontal bar for the first time at the World Championships in Antwerp .

In 2009, 2011, 2012 and 2013 he was voted Sportsman of the Year in the Netherlands .

With a height of 1.73 meters, Zonderland's competition weight is 68 kilograms. He lives in Heerenveen , where he is a member of the Turncentrum Sportstad Heerenveen (TSH) and is trained by Daniel Knibbeler. In addition to sports, Zonderland is studying medicine at the University of Groningen . He successfully completed his medical degree in 2018. Zonderland's nickname is "The Flying Dutchman" .

Web links

Commons : Epke Zonderland  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Epke Zonderland in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English)
• Official website (Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Self-portrait at epkezonderland.com (Dutch; accessed February 8, 2016).
2. ↑ Zonderland wins horizontal bar gold; USA fails to medal at foxnews.com, August 7, 2012 (accessed August 7, 2012).
3. ↑ Joynson, Danielle: Result: Epke Zonderland clinches gold medal for the Netherlands in horizontal bars at sportsmole.co.uk, August 7, 2012 (accessed August 7, 2012).
4. ↑ ^{a b} Profile ( Memento of the original from January 27, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. at london2012.com (accessed August 7, 2012).  
5. ↑ Epke Zonderland in the database of the Fédération Internationale de Gymnastique (English) (accessed on February 8, 2016).