Robert van de Graaf

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Robert van de Graaf (back) and Frederik van de Graaff in 1967 in an uncontrolled pair

Robert "Bobbie" van de Graaf (born March 17, 1944 in Macclesfield , England ) is a former Dutch rower .

The 1.89 m tall Robert van de Graaf from the DSRV Laga rowing club in Delft won the bronze medal in the four with a helmsman behind the boats from Germany and Italy at the 1964 Olympic Games . In addition to the helmsman Marius Klumperbeek, born in 1938, with Alex Mullink , Jan van de Graaff and Frederik van de Graaff, only rowers born in 1944 sat in the boat .

Web links

Commons : Robert van de Graaf  - Collection of Images

Footnotes

  1. ↑ The spelling of the name differs from source to source. The database Sports Reference he is Robert van de r Graaf, de WorldRowing at Robert van Graaf, the Dutch Wikipedia Ro b van bert de Graaf. The ambiguity is heightened by the fact that the Dutch four-man from 1964 had three rowers with similar surnames, but at least because of their date of birth they cannot be directly related to each other. While for Jan and Frederik the surname according to SportsReference and according to Dutch Wikipedia is van de Graa f f, WorldRowing and for example on page 760 in Volker Kluge's standard work are called Summer Olympics. Chronicle II. All three rowers van de Graaf. The spelling in the German language Wikipedia largely follows the image texts that were uploaded to Commons by the Dutch Nationaal Archief with the photos. Unfortunately, these image descriptions are not entirely clear either.
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SURNAME Graaf, Robert van de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Graaf, Bobbie van de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch rower
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH Macclesfield , England