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Netherlands at the 1952 Summer Olympics

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Netherlands at the 1952 Summer Olympics

NOC
  
Dutch Olympic Committee*Dutch Sports Federation

MedalsRanked 29th
  
GoldSilverBronzeTotal0505

Athletes from the Netherlands competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.

Contents

Silver

  • Bertha Brouwer — Athletics, Women's 200 metres
  • Jules Ancion, André Boerstra, Harry Derckx, Han Drijver, Dick Esser, Roepie Kruize, Dick Loggere, Lau Mulder, Eddy Tiel, Wim van Heel, and Henk Wery — Field Hockey, Men's Team Competition
  • Hannie Termeulen — Swimming, Women's 100m Freestyle
  • Geertje Wielema — Swimming, Women's 100m Backstroke
  • Irma Heijting-Schuhmacher, Hannie Termeulen, Marie-Louise Linssen-Vaessen and Koosje van Voorn — Swimming, Women's 4 × 100 m Freestyle Relay

    • Boxing

    Men's Flyweight (–51 kg)

  • Hein van der Zee
    1. First Round — Lost to Anatoli Bulakov (Soviet Union) on points (0-3)

    • Men's Light Welterweight (–63,5 kg)

  • Piet van Klaveren
    1. First Round — Defeated Roy Keenan (Canada) on points (2-1)
    2. Second Round — Lost to Terence Milligan (Ireland) on points (0-3)

    • Men's Welterweight (–67 kg)

  • Moos Linneman
    1. First Round — Defeated Peter Müller (Germany) by walk-over in third round
    2. Second Round — Defeated George Issabeg (Iran) on points (2-1)
    3. Quarterfinals — Lost to Günther Heidemann (Germany) on points (0-3)

    • Men's Middleweight (–75 kg)

  • Leen Jansen
    1. First Round — Bye
    2. Second Round — Defeated Robert Malouf (Canada) on technical knock-out in first round
    3. Quarterfinals — Lost to Floyd Patterson (United States) on knock-out in first round

    • Men's Light Heavyweight (–81 kg)

  • Toon Pastor
    1. First Round — Defeated István Fazekas (Hungary) on points (3-0)
    2. Second Round — Lost to Karl Kistner (Germany) on points (1-2)

    • Road Competition

    Men's Individual Road Race (190.4 km)

  • Arend van 't Hoft — 5:11:19.0 (→ 10th place)
  • Jan Plantaz — 5:16:19.1 (→ 22nd place)
  • Adrie Voorting — 5:24:44.6 (→ 49th place)
  • Jules Maenen — did not finish (→ no ranking)

    • Track Competition

    Men's 1.000m Time Trial

  • Johan Hijzelendoorn
  • Final — 1:14.5 (→ 8th place)

    • Men's 1.000m Sprint Scratch Race

  • Johan Hijzelendoorn — 9th place

    • Men's 4.000m Team Pursuit

  • Adrie Voorting, Daan de Groot, Jan Plantaz, and Jules Maenen
  • Eliminated in quarterfinals (→ 7th place)

    • Men's Team Competition

  • Qualifying Round
  • Defeated Soviet Union (3:2)
  • Preliminary Round (Group C)
  • Defeated Argentina (9:3)
  • Defeated Sweden (7:1)
  • Defeated Yugoslavia (3:2)
  • Last match was replayed after a protest by the Yugoslavs against one of the referees; The Netherlands lost the replay (1:2) on August 1, 1952.
  • Semi Final (Group F)
  • Tied with Hungary (4:4)
  • Defeated Soviet Union (4:2)
  • Classification Matches
  • Defeated Belgium (5:3)
  • Defeated Spain (7:1) → Fifth place
  • Team Roster
  • Gerrit Bijlsma
  • Cor Braasem
  • Joop Cabout
  • Ruud van Feggelen
  • Max van Gelder
  • Nijs Korevaar
  • Frits Smol

    • References

    Netherlands at the 1952 Summer Olympics Wikipedia
    (Text) CC BY-SA


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