Jacob "Jaap" Rijks (25 August 1919 – 11 February 2017)
was a Dutch
equestrian
The word equestrian is a reference to equestrianism, or horseback riding, derived from Latin ' and ', "horse".
Horseback riding (or Riding in British English)
Examples of this are:
*Equestrian sports
*Equestrian order, one of the upper classes in ...
who competed for his home nation in the
1948 Summer Olympics in London. He was born in
Nijmegen
Nijmegen (;; Spanish and it, Nimega. Nijmeegs: ''Nimwèège'' ) is the largest city in the Dutch province of Gelderland and tenth largest of the Netherlands as a whole, located on the Waal river close to the German border. It is about 6 ...
.
References
1919 births
2017 deaths
Dutch male equestrians
Olympic equestrians of the Netherlands
Equestrians at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Sportspeople from Nijmegen
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