Johannes "Jan" Antonius Constantius Marie Grijseels (October 6, 1890 – May 10, 1961) was a Dutch

track and field athlete Track and field is a sport that includes Competition#Sports, athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of ...

, who competed in the

1912 Summer Olympics The 1912 Summer Olympics ( sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1912), officially known as the Games of the V Olympiad ( sv, Den V olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Stockholm 1912, were an international multi-sport event held in Stockholm, Sweden, be ...

. He was a seventeenfold Dutch champion in all track events running up from

100 100 or one hundred (Roman numeral: C) is the natural number following 99 and preceding 101. In medieval contexts, it may be described as the short hundred or five score in order to differentiate the English and Germanic use of "hundred" to de ...

800 metres The 800 metres, or meters ( US spelling), is a common track running event. It is the shortest commonly run middle-distance running event. The 800 metres is run over two laps of an outdoor (400-metre) track and has been an Olympic event since the ...

. Grijseels was born in

Abcoude-Proosdij Abcoude-Proostdij (sometimes called "Abcoude-Proosdij" or "Abcoude-Proostdij en Aasdom") is a former municipality in the Dutch province of Utrecht. Abcoude-Proostdij covered the northern part of the current municipality of Abcoude, including the vi ...

and died in

Noordwijkerhout Noordwijkerhout () is a town and former municipality in the western part of the Netherlands, in the province of South Holland. The town is currently part of the municipality of Noordwijk and lies in the bulb-growing region (the Duin- en Bollenstree ...

. In 1912 he was eliminated in the semi-finals of the 200 metres competition. In the 100 metres event he was eliminated in the first round.

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list of Dutch athletes
1890 births 1961 deaths Dutch male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1912 Summer Olympics Olympic athletes for the Netherlands People from Abcoude 20th-century Dutch people Sportspeople from Utrecht (province) {{Netherlands-athletics-bio-stub