Johan Frederik Karel Hendrik Jacob Burk (born 11 May 1887 in

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– ?), later known as John Burk, was a Dutch

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who competed in the

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. After a four months training period, he competed in the

in the coxless four event. He and the other of the team were a member of “de Amstel” and were trained by J. J. K. Ooms. The team won the bronze medal in the coxless four. In 1910, he married Anna Helena Albertiene Schuitema in Amsterdam. In 1914, he moved to

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, South Africa, but shortly after immigrated to the United States. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I and later worked as a clerk and bookkeeper in

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, New York. His wife died in Florida in 1957.

References

External links

Johan Burk at databaseOlympics.com
1887 births Year of death missing Dutch male rowers Olympic rowers for the Netherlands Rowers at the 1908 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Rowers from Amsterdam Olympic medalists in rowing Dutch emigrants to the United States Medalists at the 1908 Summer Olympics 20th-century deaths United States Army personnel of World War I {{Netherlands-Olympic-medalist-stub