Eef van Dongen

Eef van Dongen (born 1993) is a Dutch orienteering competitor.[1] She received a bronze medal at the first ever knock-out sprint event at the 2022 World Orienteering Championships, behind Tove Alexandersson and Megan Carter Davies.[2] van Dongen competes for both Vasterviks OK and OLifant orienteering clubs.[1]

Eef van Dongen

Personal information
Nationality	Dutch
Born	1993 (age 29–30)
Sport
Sport	Orienteering
Medal record Women's orienteering Representing  Netherlands World Orienteering Championships 2022 Triangle Region Knock-out Sprint

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.[3] 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 Zurich in spring 2018, and decided to focus on sprint orienteering. van Dongen attended her first World Orienteering Championships in 2021; she had run less than 10 sprint races by the time she competed at the 2021 World Orienteering Championships.[3]

van Dongen participated in Volleyball and Judo as a child, 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.[3]