Johannes Cornelis van Hoolwerff (13 April 1878 in

Hoorn Hoorn () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the northwest of the Netherlands, in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of North Holland. It is the largest town an ...

– 2 August 1962 in

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) was a

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. While the term ''sailor'' ...

from the

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, who represented his native country at the

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. Van Hoolwerff, as helmsman on the Dutch 8 Metre ''Hollandia'', took the 2nd place with fellow crew members: Lambertus Doedes, Henk Kersken, Cornelis van Staveren,

Gerard de Vries Lentsch Gerardus "Gerard" de Vries Lentsch (23 November 1883, Nieuwendam, North Holland – 9 July 1973, Oegstgeest) was a sailing (sport), sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the Sailing at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 8 m ...

and Maarten de Wit.

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