Mark Neeleman Explained

Mark Neeleman
Fullname:	Mark Jacobus Louis Neeleman
Nationality:	Dutch
Birth Date:	1959 4, df=yes
Birth Place:	Baghdad, Iraq
Height:	1.84m (06.04feet)
Classes:	Laser, Finn, O-Jolle, Star, Dragon
Club:	Roei- en Zeilvereniging "Gouda"
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Updated:	15 February 2014

Mark Jacobus Louis Neeleman (born 16 April 1959, in Baghdad, Iraq) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Neeleman represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. Neeleman took 8th place in the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was boycotted by several countries. In 1984 Summer Olympics, Los Angeles Neeleman did a second attempt in the Finn and finished on the 9th place. Neeleman missed the selection for the 1988 Olympics, Pusan.

After that he switched to the Star. With crew member Jos Schrier at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona Neeleman took 4th place. Again in the Star and again with Jos Schrier, Neeleman took 6th place in the 2000 Summer Olympics, Sydney. His last Olympic appearance was in the 2004 Athens Olympics. This time with crew member Peter van Niekerk, Neeleman took 14th place in the Star.

Besides his Olympic sailing career Mark Neeleman took the World Championship J/22 and became in total 16 times Dutch Champion over several different classes. Among them there were titles in the Youth class, O-Jolle, Finn, Regenboog, J/22, Dragon. Neeleman was tactician on Favonius Swann 8o ft 3rd worlds and tactician/co-helmsman on Rainbow J-Class 2012/2013

Further reading

Web site: Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume I: Moscow, Tallinn, Leningrad, Kiev and Minsk . Fizkultura i Sport Publishers . 1981 . PDF . 15 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131017045336/http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1980/or1980v1.pdf . 17 October 2013 . dead.
Web site: Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume II: Organisation . Fizkultura i Sport Publishers . 1981 . PDF . 15 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131017050841/http://library.la84.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1980/or1980v2.pdf . 17 October 2013 . dead.
Web site: Games of the XXII Olympiad,Volume III: Participants and Results . Fizkultura i Sport Publishers . 1981 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .

1984 Olympics (Long Beach)

Web site: Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (part 1) . Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee . Los Angeles . 1985 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (part 2) . Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee . Los Angeles . 1985 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 1: Organization and Planning (part 3) . Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee . Los Angeles . 1985 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (part 1) . Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee . Los Angeles . 1985 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (part 2) . Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee . Los Angeles . 1985 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report Los Angeles 1984,Volume 2: Competition and Summary and Results (part 3) . Los Angeles Olympic Organizing Committee . Los Angeles . 1985 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .

News: Twentse surfster redt eer zeilvloot . Nieuwsblad van het Noorden . 3 April 1992 . Dutch . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume I The Challenge: From the idea to the nomination . COOB'92 S.A. . Barcelonal . 1992 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume II The Means: Objectives, resources and venues . COOB'92 S.A. . Barcelona . 1992 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume III The Organisation: The preparation of the Games . COOB'92 S.A. . Barcelona . 1992 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume IV The Games: Sixteen days in summer . Barcelona . 1992 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Web site: Official Report of the Games of the XXV Olympiad Barcelona 1992, Volume V The Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20070927222351/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1992/1992s5.pdf . dead . 27 September 2007 . COOB'92 S.A. . Barcelona . 1992 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .

Book: Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume One -Preparing for the Games . Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games . Manufactured in Australia . 2001 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Book: Official Report of the XXVII Olympiad, Volume Two – Celebrating the Games . Sydney Organising Committee for the Olympic Games . Manufactured in Australia . 2001 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .

Book: Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad Homecoming of the Games – Organisation and Operations . ATHENS 2004 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games S.A. . 2004 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .
Book: Official Report of the XXVIII Olympiad The Games . ATHENS 2004 Organising Committee for the Olympic Games S.A. . 2004 . PDF . 15 February 2014 .