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Arie "Aad" de Graaf (22 October 1939 – 21 July 1995) was a Dutch
track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...
who was active between 1959 and 1966. He won national sprint titles in 1960–1962 and finished second in 1959 and 1963–1965. He competed in the sprint at the
1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...
and
1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...
, but failed to reach the finals; in 1964 he finished in fourth place in the 2 km tandem event.


See also

* List of Dutch Olympic cyclists


References


External links

* 1939 births 1995 deaths Dutch male cyclists Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Cyclists at the 1960 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 1964 Summer Olympics Cyclists from Rotterdam {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-stub