Hennie Marinus

Hennie Marinus

To person
Date of birth	August 26, 1938
date of death	2nd August 2018
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Track cycling, road cycling
Societies)
	ARC Ulysses
Team (s)
1960 1961 1962 1963 1964–1967 1968–1969	Legnano Radium Vredestein Locomotief-Vredestein Amstel Beer Aluminum Bazuin
Most important successes
National track championships 1964 : Dutch champion in the standing race

Hennie Marinus (also Henny Marinus ) (born August 26, 1938 in Amsterdam ; † August 2, 2018 there ) was a Dutch racing cyclist .

Hennie Marinus, a man of petite stature ( small gestalte en babyface ), comes from the Amsterdam working-class neighborhood Jordaan , grew up there and still lives there today. The family had been in the fish trade for generations. As a racing driver, he rode RIH bikes that were manufactured in the neighborhood.

In 1959 Marinus was the Dutch runner-up for amateurs in road racing . From 1960 to 1969 he was a professional and now mainly drove on the track , as the earning opportunities were better. The background was also a rivalry with the racing driver and former clubmate from AC Ulysses , Peter Post , who lost three times in races against Marinus and then made his life difficult. According to one chronicler, it became clear that behind the facade of the Champions Post there was a “resentful and lousy character”. In 1961 and 1962 Hennie Marinus was third in the national sprint championship . In 1964 he won the title of Dutch champion in the standing race behind pacemaker Norbert Koch , after having been runner-up the year before. In 1967 he was again runner-up in the standing race and in 1968 in the sprint.

After finishing his cycling career, Hennie Marinus took over the family's fish trade. He wrote his memories of the time as a cyclist in the booklet 25 Sterke Verhalen. Anecdotes uit het cyclisme down.

Web links

• Hennie Marinus in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Herinneringen with a photo. wielersport.slogblog.nl, December 31, 2013, accessed on January 7, 2014 (Dutch). 
• Henny Marinus zat twee keer in a "slaggie". Stuyfssportverhalen, July 23, 2012, accessed January 7, 2013 (Dutch). 

Individual evidence

1. ^ Hennie Marinus (1938, Nederland). wielersport.slogblog.nl, August 26, 2007, accessed on January 8, 2014 . 
2. ↑ Verhalen van Jordaners. (No longer available online.) Jordaan Museum, archived from the original on January 25, 2012 ; accessed on January 8, 2014 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
3. ↑ ^{a b c} De Kleine Kampioen uit de Jordaan. Stuyfssportverhalen, January 7, 2014, accessed January 8, 2014 .