Edward Stutterheim (11 August 1908,
Amsterdam - 13 April 1977,
Opio) was a
sailor from the
Netherlands, who represented his country as at the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...
in
Torbay. Stutterheim, as crew member on the Dutch
Star
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''BEM II'', took the bronze medal with helmsman
Bob Maas
Adrianus Lambertus Joseph "Bob" Maas (18 October 1907, Batavia, Dutch East Indies – 17 December 1996. Hilversum) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles and took the Silve ...
. The team returned in
1952
Events January–February
* January 26 – Black Saturday in Egypt: Rioters burn Cairo's central business district, targeting British and upper-class Egyptian businesses.
* February 6
** Princess Elizabeth, Duchess of Edinburgh, becomes m ...
in
Helsinki where they took the 7th place.
In the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne Stutterheim was the
Dragon
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crew for the Dutch Olympic team. However, after the
Soviet invasion of Hungary
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, the Dutch government decided that the Dutch Olympic team would not compete.
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1908 births
1977 deaths
Sailors (sport) from Amsterdam
Dutch male sailors (sport)
Sailors at the 1948 Summer Olympics – Star
Sailors at the 1952 Summer Olympics – Star
Olympic sailors for the Netherlands
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in sailing
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
20th-century Dutch people
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