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Full name | Hendrik Kersken | |||||||||
Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||
Born |
Bergen op Zoom |
January 6, 1880|||||||||
Died | December 3, 1967 Harlingen |
(aged 87)|||||||||
Sailing career | ||||||||||
Class(es) | 8 Metre | |||||||||
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Updated on 2014-01-22. |
Hendrik "Henk" Kersken (January 6, 1880, Bergen op Zoom – December 3, 1967, Harlingen) was a sailor from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1928 Summer Olympics in Amsterdam. Kersken, as crew member on the Dutch 8 Metre Hollandia, took the 2nd place with helmsman Johannes van Hoolwerff and fellow crew members: Lambertus Doedes, Cornelis van Staveren, Gerard de Vries Lentsch and Maarten de Wit.