Hendrik "Henk" Kersken (6 January 1880,

Bergen op Zoom Bergen op Zoom (; called ''Berrege'' in the local dialect) is a municipality and a city located in the south of the Netherlands. Etymology The city was built on a place where two types of soil meet: sandy soil and marine clay. The sandy soil p ...

– 3 December 1967, Harlingen) was a

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from the

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, who represented his native country at the

1928 Summer Olympics The 1928 Summer Olympics ( nl, Olympische Zomerspelen 1928), officially known as the Games of the IX Olympiad ( nl, Spelen van de IXe Olympiade) and commonly known as Amsterdam 1928, was an international multi-sport event that was celebrated from ...

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. Kersken, as crew member on the Dutch 8 Metre ''Hollandia'', took the 2nd place with helmsman Johannes van Hoolwerff and fellow crew members: Lambertus Doedes, Cornelis van Staveren, Gerard de Vries Lentsch and Maarten de Wit.

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* * * 1880 births 1967 deaths Sportspeople from Bergen op Zoom Dutch male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1928 Summer Olympics – 8 Metre Olympic sailors of the Netherlands Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics Olympic medalists in sailing Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands 20th-century Dutch people {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub