Jan Geert Ankerman (2 March 1906 in

Wommels Wommels is a village in Súdwest-Fryslân municipality in the province of Friesland, the Netherlands. It had a population of around 2,216 in January 2017. History The village was first mentioned in the second half of the 13th century as Wimeling ...

– 27 December 1942 in

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) was a Dutch

field hockey Field hockey is a team sport structured in standard hockey format, in which each team plays with ten outfield players and a goalkeeper. Teams must drive a round hockey ball by hitting it with a hockey stick towards the rival team's shootin ...

player who competed in the

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. He was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the silver medal. He played all four matches as halfback. Ankerman died in a Japanese camp in Burma during

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Jan Ankerman at databaseOlympics.com
1906 births 1942 deaths Dutch male field hockey players Olympic field hockey players for the Netherlands Field hockey players at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Olympic medalists in field hockey People from Súdwest-Fryslân Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Dutch military personnel killed in World War II Dutch people who died in prison custody Prisoners who died in Japanese detention Dutch people imprisoned in Japan Royal Netherlands East Indies Army personnel of World War II Royal Netherlands East Indies Army officers Sportspeople from Friesland 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub