Pieter ("Piet") van Klaveren (born 1 September 1930 in Rotterdam, South Holland, died 28 April 2008) was a boxer from the Netherlands, who competed for his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland. There he was stopped in the quarterfinals of the Men's Light Welterweight (-63.5 kg) division by Terence Milligan of Ireland.[1] He is the younger brother of Bep van Klaveren, Olympic boxing champion in 1928. Both Van Klaveren and his twin Wim made it to the 1947 lightweight finals of the province of South Holland, in which he bested his brother.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Piet van Klaveren Bio, Stats, and Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. 4 December 2016. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
- ^ "Boksen zit Wim van Klaveren in het bloed" [Boxing is in Wim van Klaveren's blood]. NRC (in Dutch). 30 September 1997. Retrieved 21 November 2022.
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