Piet Wijdekop, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Piet Wijdekop

Canoe racer

Date of Birth: 13-Sep-1912

Place of Birth: Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands

Date of Death: 01-Sep-1982

Profession: kayaker

Nationality: Kingdom of the Netherlands

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Pieter "Piet" Wijdekop (September 13, 1912, Amsterdam – September 1, 1982, Heemskerk) was a Dutch sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1930s.
He won a bronze medal in the folding K-2 10000 m event with his younger brother Kees at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. The Wijdekop brothers were born in Amsterdam, where they were members of the canoe club De Plassers.
In their honor, an international marathon canoe race up and down between Amsterdam and Purmerend, organized yearly until 2008, was named the Gebroeders Wijdekop Race.