Jump to content
 







Main menu
    


Navigation  


●Main page
 ●Contents
 ●Current events
 ●Random article
 ●About Wikipedia
 ●Contact us
 ●Donate
  



Contribute  


●Help
 ●Learn to edit
 ●Community portal
 ●Recent changes
 ●Upload file
  







Search  

































●Create account

●Log in
 









●Create account
 ● Log in
  



Pages for logged out editors learn more  


●Contributions
 ●Talk
  


















Contents

   



(Top)
  


1 See also  




2 References  













Arie van Vliet






●العربية
 ●Català
 ●Dansk
 ●Deutsch
 ●Español
 ●فارسی
 ●Français
 ●Italiano
 ●مصرى
 ●Nederlands
 ●日本語
 ●Norsk bokmål
 ●Polski
 ●Português
 ●Русский
 ●Українська
  
Edit links
  








●Article
 ●Talk
  
















●Read
 ●Edit
 ●View history
  







Tools
    


Actions  


●Read
 ●Edit
 ●View history
  



General  


●What links here
 ●Related changes
 ●Upload file
 ●Special pages
 ●Permanent link
 ●Page information
 ●Cite this page
 ●Get shortened URL
 ●Download QR code
 ●Wikidata item
  



Print/export  


●Download as PDF
 ●Printable version
  



In other projects  


●Wikimedia Commons
  















Appearance
    

 





From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  

In this Dutch name, the surnameis van Vliet, not Vliet.
Arie van Vliet
van Vliet in 1948
Personal information
Born(1916-03-18)18 March 1916
Woerden, Netherlands
Died9 July 2001(2001-07-09) (aged 85)
Woerden, Netherlands
Sport
SportCycling

Medal record

Representing the  Netherlands
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1936 Berlin 1000m time trial
Silver medal – second place 1936 Berlin Sprint
Track World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1936 Zurich Amateur sprint
Gold medal – first place 1938 Amsterdam Sprint
Gold medal – first place 1948 Amsterdam Sprint
Gold medal – first place 1953 Zurich Sprint
Silver medal – second place 1934 Leipzig Amateur sprint
Silver medal – second place 1935 Brussels Amateur sprint
Silver medal – second place 1937 Copenhagen Sprint
Silver medal – second place 1950 Liege Sprint
Silver medal – second place 1954 Cologne Sprint
Silver medal – second place 1957 Liege Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 1946 Zurich Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 1949 Copenhagen Sprint
Bronze medal – third place 1955 Milan Sprint

Arie Gerrit van Vliet (18 March 1916 – 9 July 2001) was a Dutch sprint cyclist. Between 1934 and 1957, he won 13 medals at world championships, including four gold medals, and set several world records in sprint events, despite the interruption by World War II.[1] He also won a gold medal in 1000 m time trial and a silver medal in the individual sprint at the 1936 Summer OlympicsinBerlin. His Olympic sprint race was obstructed by the winner, German cyclist Toni Merkens, who was however not disqualified, but merely fined for 100 German marks.[2]

See also

[edit]

References

[edit]
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Arie van Vliet.
  1. ^ Arie van Vliet. cyclingarchives.com
  • ^ Arie van Vliet. sports-reference.com
    • Awards
    Preceded by

    Abe Lenstra

    		 Dutch Sportsman of the Year
    1953     		Succeeded by

    Geertje Wielema


    Flag of NetherlandsBiography icon

    This biographical article related to Dutch cycling is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • t
  • e
    • Flag of NetherlandsBiography icon Stub icon 2

    This article about a Dutch Olympic medalist is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.

  • t
  • e

    • Retrieved from "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Arie_van_Vliet&oldid=1196099163"
    Categories: 
    ●1916 births
     ●2001 deaths
     ●Dutch male cyclists
     ●Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
     ●Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
     ●Cyclists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
     ●Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
     ●Sportspeople from Woerden
     ●Olympic medalists in cycling
     ●Medalists at the 1936 Summer Olympics
     ●UCI Track Cycling World Champions (men)
     ●Cyclists from Utrecht (province)
     ●Dutch track cyclists
     ●20th-century Dutch people
     ●21st-century Dutch people
     ●Dutch cycling biography stubs
     ●Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
     Hidden categories: 
    ●Articles with short description
     ●Short description is different from Wikidata
     ●Use dmy dates from July 2021
     ●Commons category link is on Wikidata
     ●All stub articles
      


    ●This page was last edited on 16 January 2024, at 08:51 (UTC).
    ●Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License 4.0; additional terms may apply. By using this site, you agree to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy. Wikipedia® is a registered trademark of the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., a non-profit organization.


    ●Privacy policy
    ●About Wikipedia
    ●Disclaimers
    ●Contact Wikipedia
    ●Code of Conduct
    ●Developers
    ●Statistics
    ●Cookie statement
    ●Mobile view


    Wikimedia Foundation
    Powered by MediaWiki