Julius "Jules" Hermanus Maenen (15 January 1932 – 11 February 2007) was a road and

track cyclist Track cycling is a bicycle racing sport usually held on specially built banked tracks or velodromes using purpose-designed track bicycles. History Track cycling has been around since at least 1870. When track cycling was in its infancy, it wa ...

from the

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, who represented his native country at the

1952 Summer Olympics The 1952 Summer Olympics ( fi, Kesäolympialaiset 1952; sv, Olympiska sommarspelen 1952), officially known as the Games of the XV Olympiad ( fi, XV olympiadin kisat; sv, Den XV olympiadens spel) and commonly known as Helsinki 1952 ( sv, Helsin ...

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. There he was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the 4,000 m team pursuit, alongside

Adrie Voorting Adrianus ("Adri" or "Adrie") Voorting (15 February 1931 – 1 August 1961) was a road bicycle and track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he was eliminated ...

Daan de Groot Daniël ("Daan") de Groot (25 May 1933 – 8 January 1982) was a road bicycle and track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. In the 1952 Olympics, De Groot was elimin ...

and

Jan Plantaz Johannes "Jan" Marinus Plantaz (3 December 1930 – 10 February 1974) was a road and track cyclist from the Netherlands. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics in the road race (individual and team events) and 4 km team pursuit and finis ...

. Maenen did not finish his individual road race. After the Olympics he turned professional and finished second at the Dutch National Road Championship in 1957 behind

Wim van Est Wim is a masculine given name or a shortened form of Willem and other names and may refer to: * Wim Anderiesen (1903–1944), Dutch footballer * Wim Aantjes (1923–2015), Dutch politician * Wim Arras (born 1964), Belgian cyclist * Wim Blockmans ...

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Dutch Olympic Committee
1932 births 2007 deaths Dutch track cyclists Dutch male cyclists Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands People from Valkenswaard Cyclists from North Brabant {{netherlands-cycling-bio-stub

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