Job Johannes "Joop" Gouweleeuw (5 September 1940 – 29 January 2017) was a Dutch

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. He competed in 93 kg event at the

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and

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, winning a silver and gold medal, respectively. He also competed at the

1964 Summer Olympics The , officially the and commonly known as Tokyo 1964 ( ja, 東京1964), were an international multi-sport event held from 10 to 24 October 1964 in Tokyo, Japan. Tokyo had been awarded the organization of the 1940 Summer Olympics, but this ho ...

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. He was born in

Delft Delft () is a List of cities in the Netherlands by province, city and Municipalities of the Netherlands, municipality in the Provinces of the Netherlands, province of South Holland, Netherlands. It is located between Rotterdam, to the southeast, ...

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. Gouweleeuw died on 29 January 2017 in Delft, at the age of 76.

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* 1940 births 2017 deaths Dutch male judoka Judoka at the 1964 Summer Olympics Sportspeople from Delft Olympic judoka of the Netherlands {{Netherlands-judo-bio-stub