Jan de Looper
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Jan "Loep" de Looper (May 2, 1914 – June 23, 1987) was a Dutch
field hockey
player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
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He was born and died in Hilversum
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He was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all five matches as goalkeeper.
His older brother Henk de Looper
was his teammate.
Netherlands
The Netherlands is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, located mainly in North-West Europe and with several islands in the Caribbean. Mainland Netherlands borders the North Sea to the north and west, Belgium to the south, and Germany to the east, and shares maritime borders...
field hockey
Field hockey
Field Hockey, or Hockey, is a team sport in which a team of players attempts to score goals by hitting, pushing or flicking a ball into an opposing team's goal using sticks...
player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics
1936 Summer Olympics
The 1936 Summer Olympics, officially known as the Games of the XI Olympiad, was an international multi-sport event which was held in 1936 in Berlin, Germany. Berlin won the bid to host the Games over Barcelona, Spain on April 26, 1931, at the 29th IOC Session in Barcelona...
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He was born and died in Hilversum
Hilversum
is a municipality and a town in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. Located in the region called "'t Gooi", it is the largest town in that area. It is surrounded by heathland, woods, meadows, lakes, and smaller villages...
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He was a member of the Dutch field hockey team, which won the bronze medal. He played all five matches as goalkeeper.
His older brother Henk de Looper
Henk de Looper
Hendrik Christiaan "Henk" de Looper was a Dutch field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics....
was his teammate.