Henk van Gent

Henk van Gent
Personal information
Full name Hendrik Maarten van Gent
Nationality Dutch
Born (1951-05-10) May 10, 1951
Rotterdam
Height 1.75 m (5.7 ft)
Sailing career
Class(es) 470
Updated on 2014-01-09.

Hendrik Maarten "Henk" van Gent (born May 10, 1951 in Rotterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Van Gent represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Jan Willem van den Hondel as crew, Van Gent took the 4th place in the 470.

Van Gent is a teacher of physical education by training. He runs a sailingschool in Rotterdam.

Controversy

Several countries did boycott the 1980 Summer Olympics, others like France did not go since they found the competition devaluated. As result only half of the expected fleet was present during the Olympic regattas.

Sources

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