For a long time his real name wasn't known. The official protocol listed him as van Haan and almost all the sources referenced him as Gerardus van Haan or Gerardus van Loon. For about 40 years, Dutch Olympic historian Anthony Bijkerk had searched the name of the 'missing shooter'[2] (as he himself named van Haan) until in the January 2000 he published an article in the Journal of Olympic History[3] with evidence that the 'missing shooter' was Dirk Boest Gips.
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^"Dirk Boest Gips". Olympedia. Retrieved 30 December 2020.
dirk, boest, gips, this, article, surname, boest, gips, july, 1864, november, 1920, dutch, sport, shooter, competed, early, 20th, century, pistol, shooting, participated, shooting, 1900, summer, olympics, paris, bronze, medal, with, dutch, pistol, team, scorin. In this article the surname is Boest Gips Dirk Boest Gips 30 July 1864 11 November 1920 was a Dutch sport shooter who competed in the early 20th century in pistol shooting He participated in Shooting at the 1900 Summer Olympics in Paris and won a bronze medal with the Dutch pistol team scoring the most points for his team 1 Olympic medal record Men s shooting Representing the Netherlands 1900 Paris Team military pistol He was born in Dordrecht and died in The Hague For a long time his real name wasn t known The official protocol listed him as van Haan and almost all the sources referenced him as Gerardus van Haan or Gerardus van Loon For about 40 years Dutch Olympic historian Anthony Bijkerk had searched the name of the missing shooter 2 as he himself named van Haan until in the January 2000 he published an article in the Journal of Olympic History 3 with evidence that the missing shooter was Dirk Boest Gips References edit Dirk Boest Gips Olympedia Retrieved 30 December 2020 CONTENTdm PDF CONTENTdm PDF Archived from the original PDF on 7 February 2012 Retrieved 8 December 2007 External links editDirk Boest Gips at ISSF nbsp Dirk Boest Gips at Olympedia nbsp Gerardus Van Laan at databaseOlympics com nbsp nbsp nbsp This article about a Dutch Olympic medalist is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte nbsp This biographical article relating to sport shooting in the Netherlands is a stub You can help Wikipedia by expanding it vte Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Dirk Boest Gips amp oldid 1202672182, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,
