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Dutch Sportsman Of The Year
The Dutch Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year are chosen annually by Dutch athletes from a shortlist compiled by sports journalists. The elections are organized by the Dutch Olympic Committee. All the winners receive a Jaap Eden Award to remember their title. The prize for this achievement is a statuette created by painter and sculptor Jits Bakker (born 1937) from Bilthoven and is named after Jaap Eden. Since 1968, a Sport Team of the Year is chosen.Estafette-atleten beste Sportploeg, ook prijzen voor junior Van Lieshout en senior Janssen (in Dutch), '' NOS'', ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Annie Borckink And Joop Zoetemelk 1981
Annie may refer to: People and fictional characters * Annie (given name), a given name and a list of people and fictional characters with the name * Annie (Malayalam actress) (born 1975), Indian actress who works in Malayalam-language films * Annie (Telugu actress) (born 2001), Indian actress who works in Telugu-language films * Annie (singer) (born 1977), Norwegian singer Theatre and film * Annie (musical), ''Annie'' (musical), a 1977 musical ** Annie (1982 film), ''Annie'' (1982 film) *** Annie (1982 film soundtrack), ''Annie'' (1982 film soundtrack) *** ''Annie: A Royal Adventure!'', a 1995 telefilm sequel ** Annie (1999 film), ''Annie'' (1999 film) *** Annie (1999 film soundtrack), ''Annie'' (1999 film soundtrack) ** Annie (2014 film), ''Annie'' (2014 film) *** Annie (2014 film soundtrack), ''Annie'' (2014 film soundtrack) * Annie (1976 film), ''Annie'' (1976 film), a British-Italian film Music * Annie (Anne Murray album), ''Annie'' (Anne Murray album) (1972) * Annie (song ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eef Kamerbeek
Evert "Eef" Kamerbeek (17 March 1934 – 26 August 2008) was one of the best Dutch decathletes of all time. Between 1954 and 1964, he won 11 national decathlon titles, as well as seven titles in the 110 m hurdles and four titles in the 200 m hurdles, discus throw and javelin throw; he also occasionally competed in weight lifting. He missed the 1956 Summer Olympics due to their boycott by the Netherlands; at the 1960 Summer Olympics he finished fifth, while he failed to reach the final at the 1964 Games due to a back injury. At European championships, Kamerbeek finished in sixth and fourth place in 1958 and 1962, respectively. Kamerbeek was selected as the Dutch Sportsman of the year 1960. His father Henk was an Olympic hammer throw The hammer throw (HT for short) is one of the four throwing events in regular outdoor track-and-field competitions, along with the discus throw, shot put and Javelin throw, javelin. The hammer used in this sport is not like any of the tools a . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ans Van Gerwen
Anna Maria "Ans" van Gerwen (born 17 January 1951) is a former artistic gymnast from the Netherlands who competed at the 1972 and 1976 Summer Olympics in all artistic gymnastics events. Her best achievements were 9th and 19th place in the team and individual all-around events in 1972, which was the best performance among West European female gymnasts at those games. She has a degree in physiotherapy. After marrying Cor Smulders, a fellow artistic gymnast, she changed her last name from van Gerwen to Smulders. They worked as gymnastic coaches and till 2006 had a restaurant in Aarle-Rixtel Aarle-Rixtel is a village in the Netherlands, Dutch municipality of Laarbeek in North Brabant. It lies about 4 km north of Helmond. Since the municipal reorganization of 1968 the Croy Castle, castle Croy is part of Aarle-Rixtel. History A .... They have four children. References 1951 births Living people Gymnasts at the 1972 Summer Olympics Gymnasts at the 1976 Summer Olympics ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Willy Stähle
Willy Juana Stähle (16 June 1954 – 27 August 2015) was a Dutch world water skiing champion. As a young child, Stähle lived in Venezuela, where she learned water skiing from her father. Back in the Netherlands, the family lived in Bergen and she went to school in Alkmaar. In 1968 she won her first Dutch national championship water skiing. The next year, at the age of 15, she won her first European championship, and in 1971 her one world championship, in the trick discipline. For that achievement she became the Dutch Sportswoman of the Year in 1971. Stähle won a gold and a silver medal at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich for women's figure skiing and slalom, respectively; however, Olympic water skiing was considered a demonstration sport at the time and her medals did not go toward the official count. In 1975, after winning 26 European titles, Stähle retired from water skiing at the age of 21. She became a physiotherapist and a parachuting enthusiast. On 7 August 19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Atje Keulen-Deelstra
Atje Keulen-Deelstra (31 December 1938 – 22 February 2013) was a Dutch speed skater, who was a four-time World Allround Champion between the age of 32 and 36.Atje Keulen-Deelstra sports-reference.com Biography Atje Deelstra was born as the eldest of four siblings in a farmer's family. As a teenager she did gymnastics, athletics and basketball, but finally chose speed skating.Atje Keulen-Deelstra (74) overledenfrieschdagblad.nl. 23 February 2013 At the age of 16, she already won a junior title of |
Maria Gommers
Maria ("Mia") Francisca Philomena Hoogakker-Gommers (born 26 September 1939) is a Dutch retired athlete, who competed mainly in the 800 metres and competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics. Biography Gommers was the second female world record-holder over 1500 metres in October 1967 at Sittard, Netherlands, breaking the record of Anne Smith, who set the record in June of that year, by almost two seconds. Gommers competed for the Netherlands at the 1968 Olympics Games held in Mexico City, Mexico. in the 800 metres, where she won the bronze medal.Mia Gommers sports-reference.com On 14 June 1969 she also broke Smith's [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Okker
Thomas Samuel Okker (born 22 February 1944), nicknamed "the Flying Dutchman", is a Dutch former tennis player who was active from the mid-1960s until 1980. He won the 1973 French Open Doubles, the 1976 US Open Doubles, and two gold medals at the 1965 Maccabiah Games in Israel. He was ranked among the world's top-ten singles players for seven consecutive years, 1968–74, reaching a career high of world No. 3 in 1974. He also was ranked world No. 1 in doubles in 1979. Early life Okker was born in Amsterdam, is Jewish on his father's side, and identifies as Jewish. Okker's father was imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, but managed to go into hiding by assuming the papers and identity of another man. Tennis career He played his first tournament at Wolfsburg, West Germany, on clay in 1963. Okker was the Dutch champion from 1964 through 1968. In 1968, his first year as a registered professional, he won in singles and in doubles (with Marty Riessen) at the Rome Masters, Ital ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jan Janssen (cyclist)
Johannes Adrianus "Jan" Janssen (born 19 May 1940) is a Dutch former professional cyclist. He was world champion and winner of the Tour de France and the Vuelta a España, the first Dutch rider to win either. He rode the Tour de France eight times and finished all but the first time. He won seven stages and wore the yellow jersey for two days (after stage 16 in 1966 and after stage 22B in 1968). He was easily spotted in the peloton because of his blond hair and his glasses. As of the death of Federico Bahamontes in August 2023, he is the oldest surviving winner of the Tour de France, but not the most ancient winner: Lucien Aimar won in 1966. Early life Janssen was born at Nootdorp, a small town near The Hague and Delft, just five days after the Netherlands surrendered to the Nazis. He later moved to Putte, a village on the Belgian border between Roosendaal and Antwerp. He worked with his parents as a youth, digging the heavy ground of the western Netherlands to excavate foundat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stien Kaiser
Christina ("Stien") Wilhelmina Baas-Kaiser (20 May 1938 – 23 June 2022) was a Dutch speed skater. Life She was not selected for the 1964 Winter Olympics because of her 'old age' (25 at that time) but later turned out to be the first Dutch female world class speed skater. In both 1965 and 1966, she won bronze at the World Allround Championships. After having become World Allround Champion twice (in 1967 and 1968) – and also winning her 3rd and 4th Dutch Allround Championships those years – she participated at the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble. Her two bronze medals – in the 1,500 m, behind Finnish skater Kaija Mustonen and Dutch compatriot Carry Geijssen, and in the 3,000 m behind compatriot Ans Schut and, once more, Kaija Mustonen – were a bit disappointing. Not she, but Geijssen (who not only won silver in the 1,500 m, but also gold in the 1,000 m) and Schut became the Dutch heroines of those Olympics. Although she was still a formidable comp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kees Verkerk
Cornelis Arie "Kees" Verkerk (born 28 October 1942) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands.Kees Verkerk sports-reference.com Short biography Kees Verkerk was World Allround Champion in 1966 and 1967, and European Allround Champion in 1967. He won an Olympic gold medal on the 1,500 m in 1968 and a silver medal on the 5,000 m. Four years earlier (in 1964), he had won Olympic silver on the 1,500 m. In 1972, he won Olympic silver on the 10,000 m.< ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ard Schenk
Adrianus "Ard" Schenk (born 16 September 1944) is a former speed skater from the Netherlands, who is considered to be one of the best in history. His first Olympic success came in 1968, when he won a silver medal at the 1968 Winter Olympics. Between 1970 and 1972 Winter Olympics, Schenk won three consecutive World Allround Speed Skating Championships. He won three gold medals at the 1972 Winter Olympics, becoming, along with Galina Kulakova of Soviet Union, the most successful athlete there. Biography Schenk competed in international meets from 1964 on, winning his first medal at the 1965 world championships and his first gold medal at the 1966 European championships. In the late 60s, Schenk was usually bested by his compatriot Kees Verkerk, but in the early 1970s he dominated international speed skating. The winning duo of Ard & Keesie were responsible for a lasting popularity of speed skating in the Netherlands. Schenk's career peaked in 1972. He won three gold medals at t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ada Kok
Aagje ("Ada") Kok (born 6 June 1947, in Amsterdam, North Holland) is a Dutch former swimmer who ranked among the world's best in the butterfly stroke category during the 1960s. Her international career started in 1962 when, at the age of fifteen, she took the European title in the 100 m butterfly in Leipzig. She was also part of the silver 4×100 m medley relay team. At the Tokyo Olympics two years later she finished second in both events. She was also good at freestyle swimming, which showed when she took second place in the 400 metres at the 1966 European Championships in Utrecht. In the same tournament she also won the 100 m butterfly and the 4×100 m relay. She achieved nine world records between 1963 and 1967 in the 100 m and 200 m (not introduced until later). Kok reached her peak at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. She won the gold medal in the 200 meter butterfly race in a time of 2:24.7, beating the East German Helga Lindner by 0.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
