Jan Pijnenburg
Appearance
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Full name | Johannes Baptist Nobertus Pijnenburg | ||||||||||||||
Born | Tilburg, Netherlands | 15 February 1906||||||||||||||
Died | 2 December 1979 Tilburg, Netherlands | (aged 73)||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Johannes "Jan" Baptist Norbertus Pijnenburg (15 February 1906 – 2 December 1979) was a Dutch track cyclist who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics. He won the silver medal as part of the Dutch pursuit team.[1] After the Olympics he turned professional and won six-day races in Dortmund (1931, 1932), Berlin (1931), Amsterdam (1932, 1933), Brussels (1932–1934), Paris (1932, 1934), Chicago (1932), Frankfurt (1933), Stuttgart (1933), Antwerp (1934, 1937), Rotterdam (1936) and Copenhagen (1936).[2]
Honored by several people, retired in September 1940.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan Pijnenburg". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 14 April 2014. Retrieved 11 June 2014.
- ^ "Jan Pijnenburg". CyclingArchives.com.
- ^ "Gevonden in Delpher - Nieuwsblad van Friesland : Hepkema's courant". Nieuwsblad van Friesland : Hepkema's Courant (in Dutch). 9 September 1940.
External links
[edit]- Media related to Jan Pijnenburg at Wikimedia Commons
- Jan Pijnenburg at Olympedia (archive)
- Johannes Pijnenburg at databaseOlympics.com Archived 10 March 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- Johannes Baptist Norbertus Pijnenburg at Olympics.com
Categories:
- 1906 births
- 1979 deaths
- Dutch male cyclists
- Dutch track cyclists
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Cyclists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Tilburg
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from North Brabant
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen
- Dutch cycling biography stubs
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs