Johan Hin

Johannes Hin
Johan Hin
Nickname:	Johan
Nationality:	Netherlands
Birthday:	January 3, 1899
Place of birth:	Haarlem , the Netherlands
Date of death:	June 29, 1957
Place of death:	Haarlem , the Netherlands
Society:	De Haarlemsche Yacht Club (HJC)
Boat classes:	12 foot dinghy
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Olympic games gold Antwerp 1920 12 foot dinghy

12 foot dinghy

Johannes Jozef Antonius "Johan" Hin (born January 3, 1899 in Haarlem ; † June 29, 1957 ibid) was a Dutch sailor and documentary filmmaker .

successes

Johan Hin took part in the 1920 Olympic Games in Antwerp . With his younger brother Frans and his father Cornelis he started with the 12-foot dinghy Beatrijs III and was defeated on July 7th in the first race by the only opposing boat, the Boreas , which was piloted by Arnoud van der Biesen and Petrus Beukers . During the second race on July 8th, one of the course buoys drifted off, which is why the race was canceled. As the Belgian organizers could not repeat the race this week, they asked the Dutch Olympic Committee to organize two replacement races in the Netherlands on September 3rd, as both boats were made up of Dutch crews. These then took place on the Buiten-IJ : the Hin family initially managed to equalize 1: 1 in the repetition of the second race and also defeated the Boreas in the third race, making them Olympic champions . While Johan Hin was part of the crew in all races and his father Cornelis Skipper , his brother Frans was only there from the two races that took place in the Netherlands, as he - 14 years old at the time - did not allow his school to go into the first two races had received. This made him the youngest Olympic champion in the 1920 Games. In 1924, his father Cornelis was originally supposed to start in the monotype at the Olympic Games in Paris , but was replaced by Johan Hin due to a rheumatic disease. Hin finished the competition in fifth place.

In Antwerp, Johan Hin spent several years in a Benedictine monastery , where he called himself Ansgar . He eventually returned to Haarlem, became a documentary filmmaker and worked a. a. with Joris Ivens (1898–1989) and Hans Richter (1888–1976). Since 1937, his main cinematographic theme was sailing, for example the film 4000 Mijl onder Zeil ( German  4,000 miles under sails ). By 1949 he had made 25 documentaries. In order to earn a living, he also worked in his father's stocking factory.

Web links

• Johan Hin in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ^ Sailing at the 1920 Antwerp Summer Games: Mixed 12 foot. In: sports-reference.com. Accessed April 13, 2020 (English).