Henk Kersken
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Full name | Hendrik Kersken | |||||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||||
Born | Bergen op Zoom | 6 January 1880|||||||||||
Died | 3 December 1967 Harlingen | (aged 87)|||||||||||
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Class | 8 Metre | |||||||||||
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Updated on 2014-01-22 |
Hendrik "Henk" Kersken (6 January 1880, Bergen op Zoom – 3 December 1967, Harlingen) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Kersken, as crew member on the Dutch 8 Metre Hollandia, took the 2nd place with helmsman Johannes van Hoolwerff and fellow crew members: Lambertus Doedes, Cornelis van Staveren, Gerard de Vries Lentsch and Maarten de Wit.
Sources
[edit]- "Henk Kersken Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympic Sports. Sports-Reference.com. Archived from the original on 2014-01-03. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
- "Zeilen, een bij uitstek Nederlandsche sport. De Olympische wedstrijden ditmaal zeer goed bezet. — Wat zal de wind doen ?". Het volk : dagblad voor de arbeiderspartij (in Dutch) (Morning ed.). 1928-08-02. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
- "The Ninth Olympiad Amsterdam 1928:Officiel Report" (PDF). Amsterdam: The Netherlands Olympic Committee. 1928. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-04-08. Retrieved 2014-01-22.
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- 1880 births
- 1967 deaths
- Sportspeople from Bergen op Zoom
- Dutch male sailors (sport)
- Sailors at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre
- Olympic sailors for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic medalists in sailing
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- 20th-century Dutch people
- Dutch yacht racing biography stubs
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs