In 1924 Jaap Meijer won the silver medal in the sprint at the Olympic Games in Paris , behind the Frenchman Lucien Michard . The following year he became world champion in the sprint of amateurs in Amsterdam . In 1926 Meijer joined the professionals. In the following six years he came second four times and third twice at national championships in the sprint.
Jaap Meijer ended his career in 1932 and opened a bicycle shop in Amsterdam. In 1943, under unexplained circumstances, he drove his car into the water in the Belgian border community of Meer and drowned. There was suspicion that Meijer had collaborated with the German occupation; both his family and his teammates from ASC Olympia refuse to speak about him to this day.
Individual evidence
↑ Fred van Slogteren: Wielerhelden van Oranje , Nieuwegein 2003, p. 133