Leonard Wery
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Leonard "Leo" Hugo Wery (born March 27, 1926 in The Hague ; † August 29, 2019 in Wassenaar ) was a Dutch hockey player who won the silver medal at the 1952 Olympic Games .
Leonard Wery played as a striker for the Haagsche Hockey & IJshockey Club (HHIJC) (now part of HC Klein Zwitserland ), which won four Dutch championships in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
At the Olympic Games in Helsinki in 1952 , only twelve teams took part in the hockey tournament. In the first round, four teams received a bye, including the Dutch . In the quarter-finals, the Dutch defeated the German team 1-0. The semi-finals against the Pakistani team also ended 1-0, with Leonard Wery scoring the decisive goal. In the final, the Dutch lost 6-1 to the Indian team .
After his career, Wery worked as a lawyer in the oil business.
Web links
- Leonard Wery in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
Footnotes
- ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 325, note 451.
- ↑ Volker Kluge: Olympic Summer Games. The Chronicle II. London 1948 - Tokyo 1964. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 1998, ISBN 3-328-00740-7 . P. 278f.
- ↑ Brief bio on olympstats.com
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Wery, Leonard |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wery, Leonard Hugo (full name); Wery, Leo |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch hockey player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 27, 1926 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | The hague |
| DATE OF DEATH | 29th August 2019 |
| Place of death | Wassenaar |