Daan van Dijk

Daan van Dijk
	Daan van Dijk (left) and Bernard Leene ; at the 1928 Olympic Games
To person
Full name	Daniel van Dijk
Date of birth	May 10, 1907
date of death	November 22, 1986
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Track cycling
Driver type	sprinter
	Last updated: March 20, 2015

Daniel "Daan" van Dijk (born May 10, 1907 in The Hague ; † November 22, 1986 ibid) was a Dutch track cyclist .

In 1928 Daan van Dijk and Bernard Leene won the gold medal in the tandem race at the Olympic Games in Amsterdam . After the birth of his first child in 1937, he ended his active cycling career and became a competition judge.

During the war , van Dijk and his wife used the tandem with which he had won the gold medal to “ hoard ” food . The bike is exhibited today in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam .

Web links

Commons : Daan van Dijk - collection of images, videos and audio files

Daan van Dijk in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

^ 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	Dijk, Daan van
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dijk, Daniel van (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch track cyclist and Olympic champion
DATE OF BIRTH	May 10, 1907
PLACE OF BIRTH	The hague
DATE OF DEATH	November 22, 1986
Place of death	The hague

[1] 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 .

To person

Daan van Dijk (left) and Bernard Leene at the 1928 Olympic Games
Full name	Daniel van Dijk
Date of birth	May 10, 1907
date of death	November 22, 1986
nation	Netherlands Netherlands
discipline	Track cycling
Driver type	sprinter
Last updated: March 20, 2015