Pieter Dingeman "Piet" van Kempen (12 December 1898 – 5 May 1985) was a Dutch track cyclist.[1] Professional from 1919 to 1942 and again in the 1950s, he competed in 108 six-day races, and won 32. Due to these successes, he was regarded as one of the best six-day racers of the era, and was given the nicknames "Flying Dutchman" and "Zwarte Piet".[2]
 van Kempen in 1936 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Pieter Dingeman van Kempen |
| Nickname | "Flying Dutchman" "Zwarte Piet" |
| Born | 12 December 1898 Ooltgensplaat, Netherlands |
| Died | 5 May 1985 (aged 86) Brussels, Belgium |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Track |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Six-day racer |
Six-day race wins
edit- 1921: New York (with Oscar Egg)
- 1922: Brussels (with Émile Aerts)
- 1923: Paris (with Oscar Egg)
- 1924: New York (with Reginald McNamara)
- 1925: Brussels (with Émile Aerts), Paris (with Alfred Beyl)
- 1926: Breslau (with Ernst Feja), Brussels (with Klaas van Nek)
- 1927: Berlin (with Maurice De Wolf)
- 1928: Chicago (with Mike Rodak), Stuttgart (with Theo Frankenstein), Dortmund (with Maurice De Wolf)
- 1929: Stuttgart (with Paul Buschenhagen)
- 1930: Berlin, Breslau, Brussels (with Paul Buschenhagen), Saint-Étienne (with Francis Fauré), Montreal (with Joe Laporte)
- 1931: Breslau (with Willy Rieger)
- 1932: Amsterdam (with Jan Pijnenburg), Paris (with Jan Pijnenburg), Marseille (with Armand Blanchonnet), Dortmund (with Jan Pijnenburg)
- 1933: Cleveland (with Jules Audy)
- 1934: San Francisco (with Jack McCoy), London (with Sydney Cozens), Minneapolis (with Reginald Fielding & Heinz Vopel)
- 1935: Kansas City (with William Peden) and San Francisco (with James Corcoran)
- 1936: Saint-Étienne (with Jean Van Buggenhout)
- 1937: London (with Albert Buysse) and Saint-Étienne (with Jean Van Buggenhout)
References
edit- ^ Oudejans, Frans. "Kempen, Dingeman Pieter van (1898-1985)". resources.huygens.knaw.nl. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
- ^ Alfons Arenhövel: Arena der Leidenschaften. Berliner Sportpalast und seine Veranstaltungen 1910-1973 Berlin 1990, S. 260 f.
External links
edit- Piet van Kempen at Cycling Archives (archived)
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