Jan van de Graaff
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Born | Hengelo, Netherlands | 24 September 1944|||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||
Weight | 92 kg (203 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||
Club | Laga, Delft | |||||||||||||||||
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Jan van de Graaff (born 24 September 1944) is a retired Dutch rower. He won the world title in the coxed pair at the 1966 World Rowing Championships and a bronze medal in the coxed fours at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[1] At the 1964 Olympics his team mates were Marius Klumperbeek (cox), Lex Mullink, Bobbie van de Graaf and Freek van de Graaff. The three "van de Graaf(f)s" were all born in 1944.[2]
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Jan van de Graaff.
- ^ Jan van de Graaff at World Rowing
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jan van de Graaff". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 15 October 2012.
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- 1944 births
- Living people
- Dutch male rowers
- Olympic rowers for the Netherlands
- Rowers at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Hengelo
- Olympic medalists in rowing
- World Rowing Championships medalists for the Netherlands
- Medalists at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch rowing biography stubs