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Apr 16, 1959 Baghdad, Baghdad Governorate, Iraq 65 years old
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About Mark Neeleman
- 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 Finn.
- 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
