Nicole van der Velden

Van der Velden at the 2016 Olympics
Personal information
Born	26 October 1994 (1994-10-26) (age 30) Madrid, Spain
Height	168 cm (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Weight	62 kg (137 lb)
Sailing career
Club	Aruba Beach Cats[1]
Coach	Pim Nieuwenhuis

Nicole van der Velden (born 26 October 1994 in Madrid) is a Spanish-Aruban sailor. She was born Aruban, but received the Spanish nationality by the Spanish government in 2019.^[3] She competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the Nacra 17 race with Thijs Visser; they won two races and placed 16th in the final standings.^[4] She was the flag bearer for Aruba in the Parade of Nations.^[5] She campaigned a 49er FX towards the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games^[6] and is presently campaigning an IQ Foil windsurfer towards the 2024 Olympic Games.

Originally from Noord, Aruba, Van Der Velden was born in Madrid to a Dutch father and a Venezuelan mother. She took up sailing in 2008 following her father, Martin, who worked as a technical officer with the Aruba Sailing Association.^[1] She speaks four languages fluently: Papiamento, Dutch, Spanish and English.^[7][8]

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Olympic Games
Preceded by Jemal Le Grand	Flagbearer for  Aruba Rio 2016	Succeeded by Allyson Ponson Mikel Schreuders

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