Eef van Dongen
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Van Dongen is the first Dutch orienteer to receive a medal in the World Championships; the Netherlands has low participation in orienteering, with only 450 registered members as of 2022. In an interview in the lead up to the 2022 World Games, van Dongen indicated that she only started orienteering in 2018 after meeting her partner, Simon Jakobsson. She attended a training camp in Zürich in spring 2018, and decided to focus on sprint orienteering. Having run less than 10 sprint races, van Dongen attended her first World Orienteering Championships in 2021 .
As a child, Eef van Dongen participated in volleyball and judo, and more recently has been involved in endurance running and skating. She works as a researcher in glaciology at the University of Stockholm, and as a modeler at the Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute. Provided by Wikipedia
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3by Guillaume Jouvet, Yvo Weidmann, Eef van Dongen, Martin P. Lüthi, Andreas Vieli, Jonathan C. RyanGet access
Published in Frontiers in Earth Science (2019)
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4by Eef van Dongen, Guillaume Jouvet, Andrea Walter, Joe Todd, Thomas Zwinger, Izumi Asaji, Shin Sugiyama, Fabian Walter, Martin FunkGet access
Published in Journal of Glaciology (2020)
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