Piet Kleine

Piet Kleine
Full name	Pieter Kleine
nation	Netherlands
birthday	17th September 1951
place of birth	Hollandscheveld
size	1.88 cm
Career
discipline	Speed ​​skating
status	resigned
Medal table
winter Olympics 1 × 2 × 0 × M-World Championship medals 1 × 0 × 1 × M-EM medals 0 × 0 × 1 ×
winter Olympics silver Innsbruck 1976 5000 m gold Innsbruck 1976 10,000 m silver Lake Placid 1980 10,000 m  All around world championships bronze Deventer 1973 All-around gold Heerenveen 1976 All-around  All-around European Championships bronze Heerenveen 1975 All-around

Pieter "Piet" Kleine (born September 17, 1951 in Hollandscheveld / municipality of Hoogeveen ) is a former Dutch speed skater .

At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck , Kleine became Olympic champion over 10,000 meters and won silver over 5000 meters. Four years later at the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid , he again won the silver medal over 10,000 meters.

In his most successful year, 1976, Kleine also became world champion in the all- around competition and set four world records. He was voted Dutch Sportsman of the Year in 1976 .

He ended his ice skating career in 2001 and devoted himself to his profession as a postman, a job he had pursued throughout his sports career.

Web links

Commons : Piet Kleine  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Statistics at speed skating news
• Piet Kleine in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )