Pieter Jan "Piet Jan" van der Giessen (1 January 1918 – 10 June 1993) was a

sailor A sailor, seaman, mariner, or seafarer is a person who works aboard a watercraft as part of its crew, and may work in any one of a number of different fields that are related to the operation and maintenance of a ship. The profession of the s ...

from the

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, who represented his native country as 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 ...

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

. Piet Jan, as crew member on the Dutch 5.5 Metre ''De Ruyter'', took the 13th place with helmsman

Wim de Vries Lentsch Willem "Wim" de Vries Lentsch, Jr. (20 June 1914, Amsterdam – 27 January 2007, Amsterdam) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Torbay. De Vries Lentsch Jr., as helmsman on the Dutc ...

and fellow crew member

Flip Keegstra Philippus Harco "Flip" Keegstra (20 June 1914, Amsterdam – 9 May 1991, Amsterdam) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country as at the 1948 Summer Olympics in Torbay. Keegstra, as crew member on the Dutch Swallow ''S ...

Professional life

In his professional life Van der Giessen was one of the owners and founder of the shipyard

Van der Giessen de Noord Van der Giessen de Noord () was a shipyard, shipbuilding company that mainly built ferry, ferries, located in Krimpen aan den IJssel, a town in the western Netherlands. The yard was especially suited to the construction of large Ship, vessels ...

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* * * 1918 births 1993 deaths People from Krimpen aan den IJssel Dutch male sailors (sport) Sailors at the 1952 Summer Olympics – 5.5 Metre Olympic sailors of the Netherlands Sportspeople from South Holland {{Netherlands-yachtracing-bio-stub