Wim van der Voort
Dutch speed skater / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
In this Dutch name, the surname is van der Voort, not Voort.
Willem "Wim" van der Voort (24 March 1923 – 23 October 2016) was a Dutch speed skater.[1] At the 1952 Olympics in Oslo Van der Voort was the silver medalist in the men's 1500 meters, finishing 0.2 seconds behind Hjalmar Andersen of Norway.[2] He received a bronze medal at the 1953 World Allround Championships, and silver medals at the 1951 and 1953 European Championships.
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Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Born | (1923-03-24)24 March 1923 's-Gravenzande, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 23 October 2016(2016-10-23) (aged 93) Delft, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Sport | Speed skating | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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