Dik Kruidenier

Paralympic athlete

Dik Kruidenier is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer, athlete and wheelchair basketball player. At the 1960 Summer Paralympics and 1964 Summer Paralympics, he won a total of four silver and one bronze medal. [1]

At the inaugural 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome, he won two silver medals in athletics and a third silver medal with the wheelchair basketball team. Four years later at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, he won a silver and bronze medal in swimming.[2] He competed in swimming in disability class 5.

Kruidenier lived in Doorn where he trained at the Aardenburg military rehabilitation center.[3]

References

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  1. "D. Kruidenier - Athletics, Swimming, Wheelchair Basketball | Paralympic Athlete Profile". International Paralympic Committee. Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  2. "Gevonden in Delpher - Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad". www.delpher.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-11.
  3. "Gevonden in Delpher - Het vrije volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad". www.delpher.nl (in Dutch). Retrieved 2022-03-11.