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Sport
  
Rowing

Club
  
Laga, Delft

Name
  
Frits Eyken


Frits Eyken

Born
  
30 June 1893
Jakarta, Indonesia

Died
  
June 6, 1978, Zwolle, Netherlands

Frits Evert Eyken (30 June 1893 – 6 June 1978) was a Dutch rower. He competed at the 1920 Summer Olympics in the single sculls, but failed to reach the final. In 1921, Eyken won the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta beating Jack Beresford in the final. Following Eyken's victory, Janus Ooms passed on to him the "Golden Belt" he was awarded in 1892. Eyken, in turn, passed it on to the next Dutch Diamonds winner Bertus Gunther in 1929.

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