Jacq van den Berg

Jacob Ralph "Jacq" van den Berg (born 19 December 1916) is a sailor from the Netherlands who represented his country at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Naples. He was born in Birmingham. Van den Berg, as crew on the Dutch Dragon, took the 13th place with helmsman Wim van Duyl and fellow crew member Biem Dudok van Heel. In the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne Van den Berg was the Dragon crew for the Dutch Olympic team. After the Soviet invasion in Hungary, however, the Dutch government decided that the Dutch Olympic team would not compete.

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• Jacob Ralph van den Berg at World Sailing
• Jacob Ralph van den Berg at Olympics.com
• Jacq van den Berg at Olympedia

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<1952 1956 Dutch Olympic Sailing Team 1960>

Finn

• Helmsman: Bob Markus

12m² Sharpie

• Helmsman: Jacques Kraan
• Crew: Henk Kraan

Star

• No Dutch Representation

Dragon

• Helmsman: Wim van Duyl
• Crew: Eddy Stutterheim
• Jacq van den Berg

5.5 Metre

• No Dutch Representation

Substitutes

• All classes: Simon de Wit
• Finn: Hans Sleeswijk

Officials

• Chef d'équipe: Simon de Wit

Team size

• Female: 0
• Male: 8
• Officials: 1
• Total: 8

Medals

• No participation due to Dutch boycott of the 1956 Games. This boycott was a result of the presence in Hungary of the Soviet Union after the Hungarian Revolution. All team members were reward with a gold medal of the Royal Netherlands Yachting Union in 1956. Olympic recognition was given by the Dutch NOC-NSF 50 years later.

Sources

• "Zeilteam voor Melbourne" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). De Tijd : godsdienstig-staatkundig dagblad. 1956-07-13. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "Olympische sporters 1956 krijgen alsnog erkenning" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). Geschiedenis 24. 2006-07-03. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "Wij hadden moeten gaan" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 1956-12-24. Retrieved 2014-01-21.

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