Tony van Dorp
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| Birth name | Anton Ludwig van Dorp | |||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch, American | |||||||||||
| Born | 25 June 1936 Batavia, Dutch East Indies | |||||||||||
| Died | 24 October 2010 (aged 74) | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in) | |||||||||||
| Weight | 91 kg (201 lb) | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||
| Club | Phillips 66, Long Beach | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Anton Ludwig "Tony" van Dorp (25 May 1936 – 24 November 2010) was a Dutch-American water polo goalkeeper. He was born in Batavia, Dutch East Indies, to Dutch parents and played in the Netherlands and for the Dutch national team until 1963. However, since 1957 he lived most of the time in the United States and had the US citizenship. Thus he competed in the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics for the United States. He then played for the club Phillips 66, Long Beach, and became AAU All-American in 1964–68. In 1967, his team won the Pan American Games where he stopped 50% of penalty shots and was named the outstanding goalkeeper of the tournament. Beside water polo, he served for 21 years as an air traffic controller with the US Air Force in the US, Germany, and Vietnam.[1][2]
His younger brother, Fred van Dorp, was also a water polo player, who participated in the 1960, 1964 and 1968 Olympics for the Netherlands, and played against his brother.[3] One anecdote on this rivalry says that in the 1964 game, while Fred was preparing for a penalty shot, Tony thought that "Fred knows that I know that he always shoots to his right, so he will go to his left, and I'll play it that way. But then I thought that he would also realize this and not shoot to his left, so I went to his right … and there was the ball."[4]
In 1982, he was inducted into the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame.[5][6]
Tony van Dorp died of old age in 2010 and was survived by his three children, Fred, Helen, Kristie, and four grandchildren.[2]
International senior tournaments
[edit]- 1964 Summer Olympics (Tokyo, Japan, 9th position)
- 1967 Pan American Games (Winnipeg, Canada, gold medal)
- 1968 Summer Olympics (Mexico City, Mexico, 5th position)
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Tony van Dorp. sports-reference.com
- ^ a b Passages: Tony Van Dorp, 74 – November 24, 2010. swimmingworldmagazine.com
- ^ Fred van Dorp. sports-reference.com
- ^ Andy Burke Peering Into Polo's Past. waterpoloplanet.com
- ^ "Anthony L Van Dorp (1982)". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
- ^ "Hall of Fame Inductees". usawaterpolo.org. USA Water Polo. Retrieved 18 September 2020.
External links
[edit]- Tony van Dorp at the USA Water Polo Hall of Fame
- Tony van Dorp at Olympics.com
- Tony van Dorp at Olympedia
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- 1936 births
- 2010 deaths
- People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies
- Dutch male water polo players
- American male water polo players
- Water polo goalkeepers
- Olympic water polo players for the United States
- Water polo players at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Deaths from cancer in California
- Air traffic controllers
- Pan American Games medalists in water polo
- Pan American Games gold medalists for the United States in water polo
- Medalists at the 1967 Pan American Games
- Water polo players at the 1967 Pan American Games
- 20th-century American sportsmen