Roy Meyer

Roy Meyer

Meye (2020)

Personal information

Birth name

Roy

Nickname

The Small Giant

Nationality

Dutch

Born

4 June 1991 (age 32)
Breda, Netherlands

Home town

Rotterdam, Netherlands

Occupation

Judoka

Height

186 cm (6 ft 1 in)

Weight

122 kg (269 lb)

Website

roymeyer.nl

Sport

Country

Netherlands

Sport

Judo

Weight class

+100 kg

Club

Budokan Rotterdam

Coached by

Jean-Paul Bell

Achievements and titles

Olympic Games

7th (2016)

World Champ.

(2019, 2021)

European Champ.

(2017, 2022)

National finals

Dutch champion 2015

Highest world ranking

3(2016)

Medal record

Men's judo

Representing the Netherlands
World Championships
	2019 Tokyo	+100 kg
	2021 Budapest	+100 kg
	2023 Doha	Mixed team
European Championships
	2017 Warsaw	+100 kg
	2022 Sofia	+100 kg
World Masters
	2015 Rabat	+100 kg
	2016 Guadalajara	+100 kg
IJF Grand Slam
	2019 Abu Dhabi	+100 kg
	2015 Baku	+100 kg
	2016 Baku	+100 kg
	2022 Ulaanbaatar	+100 kg
	2023 Antalya	+100 kg
	2014 Abu Dhabi	+100 kg
	2015 Paris	+100 kg
	2016 Paris	+100 kg
IJF Grand Prix
	2014 Zagreb	+100 kg
	2017 The Hague	+100 kg
	2019 Antalya	+100 kg
	2013 Abu Dhabi	+100 kg
	2016 Tbilisi	+100 kg
	2014 Qingdao	+100 kg
	2015 Zagreb	+100 kg
	2015 Jeju	+100 kg
	2018 Budapest	+100 kg
	2018 The Hague	+100 kg
	2019 Tbilisi	+100 kg
European U23 Championships
	2012 Prague	+100 kg
World Juniors Championships
	2010 Agadir	+100 kg
European Junior Championships
	2010 Samokov	+100 kg

Profile at external databases

IJF

3394

JudoInside.com

54809

Updated on 23 May 2023.

Roy Meyer (born 4 June 1991) is a Dutch judoka.

He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, in the men's +100 kg.^[1] In the quarter finals he was defeated by the eventual bronze medalist Or Sasson of Israel. In the repechage he was defeated by later bronze medalist Rafael Silva of Brazil. In the second round he eliminated Deo Gracia Ngokaba of Congo and in the third round he eliminated Kim Sung-Min of South Korea.^[2]^[3]