Richard Schuil

Richard Schuil
Richard Schuil 2008
portrait
birthday	May 2nd 1973
place of birth	Leeuwarden , the Netherlands
size	2.07 m
Indoor volleyball
position	Universal
societies
1982–1991 1991–1996 1996–1997 1997–1998 1998–2000 2000–2001 2001–2002 2002–2003 2003–2004 2004–2005 2005–2006	Orbi Leeuwarden Piet Zoomers Apeldoorn Noliko Maaseik Conad Ferrara Lube Macerata Noliko Maaseik Prisma Volley Taranto Pallavolo Padua Teleunit Gioia del Colle Daytona Modena Prisma Volley Taranto
National team
380 times	A national team
successes
1996 - Gold Olympic Games Atlanta 1997 - European Champion 2000 - 5th place Olympic Games Sydney 2004 - 9th place Olympic Games Athens
beach volleyball
partner	2006–2013 Reinder Nummerdor
successes
2007 - Winner of the FIVB tournament in Manama 2007 - Vice European Champion 2008 - European Champion 2008 - 5th place Olympic Games Beijing 2009 - European Champion 2010 - European Champion 2011 - 3rd place European Championship 2012 - 4th place Olympic Games London
As of April 24, 2014

Richard Schuil (born May 2, 1973 in Leeuwarden , Friesland , Netherlands ) is a Dutch volleyball and beach volleyball player .

Career

Indoor volleyball

Richard Schuil started his career in Leeuwarden . The real breakthrough came with Piet Zoomer's Apeldoorn . Schuil was then a top player at the Belgian club Noliko Maaseik . Later he switched to the Italian "Serie A1", where he played for Conad Ferrara , Lube Macerata , Prisma Volley Taranto , Pallavolo Padua , Teleunit Gioia del Colle and Daytona Modena .

Richard Schuil became Olympic champion in Atlanta with the Dutch national team in 1996 . In 1997 he became European champion. He then took part twice in the Olympic Games in indoor volleyball, in Sydney in 2000 and in Athens in 2004. He had a total of 380 appearances in the national team.

beach volleyball

Richard Schuil played beach volleyball with Reinder Nummerdor on the FIVB World Tour and on the CEV European Tour from 2006 to 2013 . The numberdor / Schuil duo had their first major success in 2007 when they won the FIVB tournament in Manama (Bahrain). At the 2008 Beijing Olympics , they came in fifth. Between 2008 and 2010 they became European champions three times in a row. The two Western Europeans won their next FIVB title at the last event in 2011 in Agadir . At the 2012 Olympic Games in London , they finished fourth.

Private

Richard Schuil married the Dutch volleyball player Elke Wijnhoven on June 6, 2009 . Their daughter Lisa was born in March 2012.

Web links

• Profile on legavolley.it (Italian)
• Portrait on beach-volleyball.de
• Profile in the Beach Volleyball Database (English)
• Biography on the FIVB homepage (English)