Frans Hin took part in the 1920 Games in Antwerp . With his older brother Johan and his father Cornelis he started with the 12-foot dinghy Beatrijs III and on July 7th was defeated 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 . Frans Hin was only part of the crew from the two races taking place in the Netherlands, as he - at the time 14 years old - had not received approval from his school for the first two races. This also made him the youngest Olympic champion in the 1920 Games.
He later worked in his father's stocking factory.
Web links
Frans Hin in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
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