Pieter "Piet" Johannes Alexander Salomons (14 July 1924 – 8 October 1948) was a Dutch
water polo
Water polo is a competitive sport, competitive team sport played in water between two teams of seven players each. The game consists of four quarters in which the teams attempt to score goals by throwing the water polo ball, ball into the oppo ...
goalkeeper. He played two matches at the
1948 Summer Olympics
The 1948 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XIV Olympiad and also known as London 1948) were an international multi-sport event held from 29 July to 14 August 1948 in London, England, United Kingdom. Following a twelve-year hiatus ca ...
where his team won a bronze medal.
[ A few months after the games he committed suicide by jumping in front of an oncoming train.][
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See also
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* List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
Men's water polo has been part of the Summer Olympics program since 1900. Hungary men's national water polo team has won sixteen Olympic medals, becoming the most successful country in men's tournament.
There are fifty-nine male athletes who have ...
* List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers
This is a list of male goalkeepers who have been named in the national water polo team at the Summer Olympics.
Abbreviations
Winning goalkeepers
The following table is pre-sorted by edition of the Olympics (in ascending order), cap number or ...
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1924 births
1948 deaths
People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Dutch male water polo players
Water polo goalkeepers
Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands in water polo
Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Suicides in the Netherlands
Suicides by train
Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies
20th-century Dutch East Indies people
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