Piet Wijdekop
Olympic athlete
1912 – 1982
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Who was Piet Wijdekop?
Pieter "Piet" Wijdekop was a Dutch sprint canoer who competed in the late 1930s. He won a bronze medal in the folding K-2 10000 m event with his younger brother Cees at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.
The Wijdekop brothers were born in Amsterdam, where they were members of the canoe club De Plassers. In their honor, an international marathon canoe race up and down between Amsterdam and Purmerend, organized yearly until 2008, was named the Gebroeders Wijdekop Race.
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- Born
- Sep 13, 1912
- Also known as
- Pieter Wijdekop
- Lived in
- Amsterdam
- Died
- Sep 1, 1982
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on July 23, 2013
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