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Born | Zaandam, the Netherlands | 11 July 1931||||||||||||||
Died | 3 February 2022 Hilversum, the Netherlands | (aged 90)||||||||||||||
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Sport | Rowing | ||||||||||||||
Club | D.S.R.V. Laga | ||||||||||||||
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Jan op den Velde (11 July 1931 – 3 February 2022) was a Dutch rower. Op den Velde was born in 1931 in Zaandam, the Netherlands. He was a member of the student rowing club D.S.R.V. Laga.[1] He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki with the men's coxless four where they were eliminated in the round one repêchage.[2][1] He died on 3 February 2022 at the age of 90.[3][4]