Country Netherlands Retired 1960 Role Speed Skater | Name Kees Broekman Sport Speed skating | |
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Born July 2, 1927 ( 1927-07-02 ) De Lier, Netherlands Personal best(s) 500 m: 44.2 (1956)
1000 m: 1:31.6 (1954)
1500 m: 2:13.1 (1956)
3000 m: 4:41.6 (1953)
5000 m: 8:00.2 (1956)
10 000 m: 16:33.5 (1956) Died November 8, 1992, Berlin, Germany Olympic medals Speed Skating at the 1952 Winter Olympics - Men's 5000m Similar People Hjalmar Andersen, Sverre Haugli, Carl‑Erik Asplund | ||
Cornelis "Kees" Broekman (2 July 1927 – 8 November 1992) was a Dutch former speed skater.
At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Broekman was silver medalist on both the 5000 meter and the 10000 meter, the first ever Winter Olympic medals for the Netherlands. He won a silver medal at the World Allround Speed Skating Championships for Men 1949, and became European champion 1953.
In the 1950s Broekman moved to Norway, where he competed until the 1960 Summer Olympics. After the Games he retired to become a speed skating coach, bringing Atje Keulen-Deelstra and Göran Claeson to world titles. He later coached speed skating in Berlin, where he died at age 65.
He was an uncle of the Olympic speed skater Stien Kaiser.
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