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| Full name | Hendrik Kersken | |||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | |||||||||
| Born |
January 6, 1880 Bergen op Zoom |
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| Died | December 3, 1967 (aged 87) Harlingen |
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| Class(es) | 8 Metre | |||||||||
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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.