Jan Wienese
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Wienese in 1967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Henri Jan Wienese | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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4 June 1942 Amsterdam, Netherlands | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 81 kg (179 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Rowing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Club | De Amstel, Amsterdam | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Henri Jan Wienese (born 4 June 1942) is a former Dutch competition rower. He won the gold medal in single sculls at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City,[1] the only gold medal ever for the Netherlands in this event.[2] He also won two European bronze medals in single sculls in 1965 and 1967, as well as a silver at the 1966 World Rowing Championships.[3]
Wienese is the great-uncle of the French NBA basketball player of the San Antonio Spurs, Tony Parker.
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- ↑ "Jan Wienese". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC.
- ↑ "Jan Wienese". sport.nl (in Dutch). National Olympic Committee. Archived from the original on 2007-05-19.
- ↑ "Rudern - Weltmeisterschaften. Einer - Herren" [Rowing - World Championships. One - Men]. Sport-Komplett.de (in German). Archived from the original on 2015-06-23.
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