Martinus "Tinus" Bernardus Osendarp (21 May 1916 – 20 June 2002) was a Dutch sprint runner.

Sporting career

Osendarp was a football player and started training in sprint for fun. His first international success came at the 1934 European Championships where he won bronze medals in the 200 m and 4 × 100 m relay. He won another two bronze medals at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin, in the 100 m and 200 m sprint events. The games were held in

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and Osendarp gained some fame as the fastest white sprinter behind the black

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. A possible third medal was lost when Osendarp dropped the baton in the final of the 4 × 100 m relay while fighting for second place. Contested on the second day of the games, drenching rain made the track soggy and slow for the running of the 100 meter dash semi-finals. Despite the unfavorable conditions Osendarp still managed a time of 10.6 s, right behind American

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. In the 100 m final he ran 10.5 s, behind Americans

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10.3 s, and Ralph Metcalfe 10.4 s.Tinus Osendarp
Sports-Reference.com Upon his return home Osendarp was called "the best white sprinter" by the Dutch press. The basis for his future involvement in National Socialism was laid in Berlin, where he first came under the influence of SS propaganda. In 1938 Osendarp won two European titles in the 100 m and 200 m, equalling the 1934 performance of his compatriot

Chris Berger Christiaan David "Chris" Berger (27 April 1911 – 12 September 1965) was a Dutch athlete, competing in the sprints. Career Berger was a football player and changed to running after winning a 100 national title among footballers. In 1930 he ra ...

Later life

When Germany occupied the Netherlands in

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, Osendarp, who was by then a Dutch police officer, became a member of the German Security Service. He later joined the Dutch

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NSB party and the SS. When the Wehrmacht marched into Holland in 1940 Osendarp became a member of the volunteer SS and an employee of the Nazi Security Police, helping in the deportation of

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.David Clay Large (2007) ''Nazi Games: The Olympics of 1936'', W. W. Norton & Company, p. 238, In 1948, Osendarp was sentenced for 12 years in jail for acts he committed during the war. He was released early in 1953 and moved to

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to work in the mines. In 1958 he also became athletics coach at Kimbria in

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, and from 1972 he was a coach at Achilles-Top in

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. He died in 2002 at the age of 86 in

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Competition record

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Osendarp, Tinus 1916 births 2002 deaths Dutch male sprinters Athletes (track and field) at the 1936 Summer Olympics Dutch collaborators with Nazi Germany Dutch police officers European Athletics Championships medalists Olympic athletes of the Netherlands Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands Sportspeople from Heerlen Sportspeople from Delft SS personnel Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists in athletics (track and field) Dutch prisoners and detainees