Hennie Dompeling
Personal information
Full nameHendrikus Dompeling
Nationality Netherlands
Born(1966-04-09)9 April 1966
Haarlemmermeer, The
Netherlands
Died25 March 2023(2023-03-25) (aged 56)
Haarlemmermeer, The
Netherlands
Height1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in)
Weight126 kg (278 lb)
Sport
SportShooting
EventSkeet (SK125)
ClubKSV Claybusters[1]
Coached byNella Heemskerk[1]
Medal record
Men's shooting
Representing the  Netherlands
World Championships
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Perth SK
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Nicosia SK125
European Championships
Gold medal – first place 1995 Lahti SK125
Bronze medal – third place 1990 Uddevalla SK
Bronze medal – third place 1991 Bologna SK
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Lisbon SK125

Hendrikus "Hennie" Dompeling (9 April 1966 – 25 March 2023) was a Dutch sport shooter. He was born in Haarlemmermeer.[2] He has competed for the Netherlands in skeet shooting at five Olympics (1988 to 2004), and has been close to an Olympic medal in 2000 (finishing in fourth place). Outside the Olympic career, Dompeling has produced a phenomenal record of twenty-one medals in a major international competition: two bronze at the World Championships, a total of four (two golds and two silver) at the ISSF World Cup final, a total of nine (five golds, three silver, one bronze) at numerous ISSF World Cup meets, and a total of six (two golds, one silver, and three bronze) under both junior and senior category at the European Championships.[1]

Career

Having started the sport since the age of fourteen, Dompeling has been a member of Claybusters Skeet Shooting Association (Dutch: Kleiduiven Schiet Vereniging Clay Busters, KSV Claybusters), and a resident athlete of the Royal Netherlands Shooting Federation (Dutch: Koninklijke Nederlandse Schietsport Associatie, KNSA), where he trained throughout his career under head coach Nelia Heemskerk.[3]

Dompeling competed internationally for the Netherlands at the age of eighteen, and then became a junior European champion in skeet shooting at Montecatini, Italy when he was twenty. Two years later, Dompeling made his first Dutch team at the 1988 Summer Olympics, finishing thirteenth in the mixed skeet with 195 points.[4]

In 1991, Dompeling set a new final world record of 225 clay pigeons to take the silver medal at the ISSF World Cup final in Munich, Germany.[1] Dompeling's magnificent world-record feat culminated in a selection of being one of clear favorites for an Olympic medal at his succeeding Games in Barcelona 1992, but slipped out of his contention desperately to forty-second place in the final debut of the mixed skeet, posting a dismal score of 143.[5]

Dompeling reached the peak of his shooting career in the 1995 season by winning a gold medal each at the World Cup and European Championships, and a bronze at the Worlds.[6] On his third Olympic appearance at Atlanta 1996, Dompeling held off a charge from his ill-fated Olympic feat in Barcelona to score 120 targets out of a possible 125 in the qualifying round of the inaugural men's skeet, but his results were not enough to put him through to the final, forcing a tie with four other shooters for fifteenth place.[7][8]

Dompeling's significant highlight of his Olympic career came in Sydney 2000, when he reached the final for the first time in the men's skeet on his fourth Games. He prevailed in a grueling shoot-off against Italy's Andrea Benelli 4 to 3 for fourth place with a matching score of 146, but fell short of his first ever Olympic medal by just a single target behind the U.S. shooter James Graves.[9][10][11]

Two years later, Dompeling emerged victorious from his Olympic medal failure to shoot a single-target lead over U.S. shooter Shawn Dulohery 23 to 22 for the gold at the second meet of the 2002 ISSF World Cup series in Shanghai, China.[12] Coming on top of the World Cup podium for the fifth time in his career (the first being done in 1990), Dompeling also secured an Olympic quota place, and was eventually selected to compete for the Netherlands in his fifth Games.[13]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Dompeling qualified for his fifth Dutch team, as a 38-year-old veteran, in the men's skeet, by having registered a minimum qualifying score of 123 from his fantastic top finish at the World Cup two years earlier.[13][14] Dompeling could not produce a much electrifying effort from Sydney 2000, as he finished in an unprecedented eight-way tie for twenty-first place with a matching score of 119.[3][15]

Olympic results

Event 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004
Skeet (mixed) 13th
146+49 		42nd
143 		Not held
Skeet (men) Not held 15th
120 		4th
122+24 		21st
119

References

  1. ^ a b c d "ISSF Profile – Hennie Dompeling". ISSF. Retrieved 18 October 2014.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Hennie Dompeling". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  3. ^ a b Buddenberg, Fred (23 August 2004). "Voor de ervaren Dompeling is Athene geen mooie ervaring" [For the experienced Dompeling, Athens is not a nice experience] (in Dutch). Trouw. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  4. ^ "Seoul 1988: Shooting – Mixed Skeet" (PDF). Seoul 1988. LA84 Foundation. p. 390. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  5. ^ "Barcelona 1992: Shooting – Mixed Skeet" (PDF). Barcelona 1992. LA84 Foundation. p. 360. Archived from the original (PDF) on 27 September 2007. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  6. ^ "Dompeling spreekt van koude oorlog" [Dompeling speaks of Cold War] (in Dutch). Trouw. 23 July 1996. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  7. ^ "Atlanta 1996: Shooting – Men's Skeet" (PDF). Atlanta 1996. LA84 Foundation. p. 122. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  8. ^ "Swinkels heeft laatste kruit verschoten" [Swinkels has last shot left] (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. 29 July 1996. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  9. ^ "Sydney 2000: Shooting – Men's Skeet" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. pp. 72–75. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
  10. ^ "Dompeling wordt gedeeld vierde" [Dompeling tied for fourth] (in Dutch). NRC Handelsblad. 23 September 2000. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  11. ^ "Dompeling toch ingenomen met zijn vierde plaats" [Dompeling nevertheless satisfied with fourth place] (in Dutch). de Volkskrant. 25 September 2000. Retrieved 18 August 2015.
  12. ^ "American wins Silver Medal in China World Cup". USA Shooting. Civilian Marksmanship Program. 9 October 2002. Archived from the original on 6 October 2008. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  13. ^ a b "Dompeling als eerste genomineerd voor Athene 2004" [Dompeling was first to be nominated for Athens 2004] (in Dutch). Nieuwsbank.nl. 9 October 2002. Retrieved 15 August 2015.
  14. ^ "Shooting 2004 Olympic Qualification" (PDF). Majority Sports. p. 10. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 July 2015. Retrieved 21 July 2015.
  15. ^ "Shooting: Men's Skeet Prelims". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.

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