Sijtse Jansma

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Sijtse Jansma (born May 22, 1898 in Leeuwarden , † December 4, 1977 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch tug of war and Olympic silver medalist.

At the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp , Belgium , Jansma won the silver medal in the tug of war together with Wilhelmus Johannes Bekkers , Johannes Hengeveld , Henk Janssen , the brothers Antonius and Willem van Loon and the brother couple Marinus and Willem van Rekum . In the competition that took place on August 17 and 18, 1920, the eight-man team, whose average weight was 85 kilograms per person, competed against the Italian team in the first competition ; The Dutch won the duel 2-0 after 71 and 43.25 seconds respectively. The second competition against the United Kingdom was lost after 28.8 and 13.4 seconds with 0: 2, so that the team had no chance of winning the gold medal. The following contest for the silver medal against the Belgians at home was decided by the Dutch 2-0 in their favor after 63.4 and 123 seconds. Jansma and his team won the first medal in the Olympic history of the Netherlands .

Jansma belonged to the Arnhemer Krachtsportvereniging Achilles .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Comité Olympique et Interfédérale Belge: Olympic Games Antwerp 1920. Official Report. Brussels 1957, p. 141 ( online ; PDF; 975 kB).
  2. ↑ a b c Ton Bijkerk: Olympic Orange. Van Athene 1896 tot en met Beijing 2008. Tirion Sports, Baarn 2008, ISBN 978-9-04-391201-3 .
personal data
SURNAME Jansma, Sijtse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch tug of war
DATE OF BIRTH May 22, 1898
PLACE OF BIRTH Leeuwarden , the Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH 4th December 1977
Place of death Amsterdam , Netherlands