Jan op den Velde
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Born | Zaandam, the Netherlands | 11 July 1931||||||||||||||
Died | 3 February 2022 Hilversum, the Netherlands | (aged 90)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
Club | D.S.R.V. Laga | ||||||||||||||
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Jan op den Velde (11 July 1931 – 3 February 2022) was a Dutch rower. Op den Velde was born in 1931 in Zaandam, the Netherlands. He was a member of the student rowing club D.S.R.V. Laga.[1] He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's coxless four where they were eliminated in the round one repêchage.[2][1] He died on 3 February 2022 at the age of 90.[3][4]
References
[edit]- ^ a b Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan op den Velde". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ "Jan op den Velde". International Rowing Federation. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- ^ "Death notice" (in Dutch).
- ^ "Olympisch roeier Jan Op den Velde hield geen medaille over aan Helsinki 1952, maar wel smakelijke verhalen". de Volkskrant (in Dutch). 6 April 2022. Retrieved 29 June 2022.
Categories:
- 1931 births
- 2022 deaths
- Dutch male rowers
- Olympic rowers for the Netherlands
- Rowers at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Delft University of Technology alumni
- Sportspeople from Zaanstad
- Rowers from North Holland
- European Rowing Championships medalists
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen
- 21st-century Dutch people
- Dutch rowing biography stubs