Bernard Leene

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Bernard Leene Road cycling
Bernard Leene (r.) And Daan van Dijk at the 1928 Olympic Games
Bernard Leene (r.) And Daan van Dijk
at the 1928 Olympic Games
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Full name Bernardus Petrus Leene
Date of birth February 15, 1903
date of death November 24, 1988
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Track cycling
Driver type sprinter
Most important successes
Olympic games
goldOlympic Champion Tandem 1928 (with Daan van Dijk)
silverOlympic silver tandem 1936 (with Henk Ooms)
Last updated: March 20, 2015

Bernardus Petrus "Bernard" Leene (born February 15, 1903 in The Hague , † November 24, 1988 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch track cyclist and Olympic champion.

In 1925 and 1927, Bernard Leene was the Dutch runner-up in the amateur sprint . In 1925 he started at the World Railroad Championships in Amsterdam and took third place among the amateur sprinters. In 1928 the Olympic Games took place , also in Amsterdam, and Bernard Leene won the gold medal in a tandem race together with Daan van Dijk in front of a home crowd . In the following years he stood on the podium several times at national sprint championships. At the Olympic Games in 1936 he won a second Olympic medal in a tandem race, this time in silver, together with Henk Ooms .

Leene came from a cycling family: his four brothers were also racing cyclists; the eleven years older brother Gerard Leene was five times Dutch champion in scratch and sprint as a professional . Bernard Leene's descendants are also athletic: his granddaughter Monique Rodahl was a world-class swimmer who competed for New Zealand at the 1976 Olympic Games .

The “golden” tandem of Leene and Van Dijk is exhibited in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam . During the war years , van Dijk and his wife used the bike to “ hoard ”.

literature

  • Fred van Slogteren: Wielerhelden van Oranje . Nieuwegein 2003, p. 128

Web links

Commons : Bernard Leene  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Monique Rodahl in the database of Sports-Reference (English, archived by the original ), accessed on September 3 2018th
  2. ^ Karl Lennartz / Wolf Reinhardt / Ralph Schlueter: The games of the X. Olympiad 1932 in Lake Placid and Los Angeles . Agon, 2015, ISBN 978-3-89784-406-3 , pp. 218 .
personal data
SURNAME Leene, Bernard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Leene, Bernardus Petrus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch track cyclist and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH February 15, 1903
PLACE OF BIRTH The hague
DATE OF DEATH November 24, 1988
Place of death Amsterdam