Cornelis "Cor" Groot (21 January 1909,
Akersloot
Akersloot is a village in the Dutch province of North Holland. It is a part of the municipality of Castricum, and lies about 9 km south of Alkmaar. Until 1 January 2002, Akersloot was a separate municipality.
The oldest name for Akersloot ...
– 23 September 1978,
Haarlem
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) was a
sailor
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from the
Netherlands
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, who represented his country at the
1968 Summer Olympics
The 1968 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1968), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XIX Olimpiada) and commonly known as Mexico 1968 ( es, México 1968), were an international multi-sport eve ...
in
Acapulco
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. Groot, as helmsman on the Dutch
Dragon
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, took 10th place with crew members
Jan Bol and
Pieter de Zwart. Groot was also the substitute helmsmen for the
1964
Events January
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* January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch ...
Dutch Dragon.
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1909 births
1978 deaths
People from Akersloot
Dutch male sailors (sport)
Olympic sailors of the Netherlands
Sailors at the 1968 Summer Olympics – Dragon
Sportspeople from North Holland
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