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Hadriaan van Nes, 82, Dutch rower, Olympic silver medalist (1968).
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|Hadriaan van Nes (7 August 1942 – 9 October 2024) was a Dutch rower who won the silver medal in the coxed pairs at the 1968 Summer Olympics, alongside Roderick Rijnders and Herman Suselbeek. He won a world title in 1966 and a European bronze medal in 1965 in this event. His daughter Eeke van Nes also became an Olympic rower. His wife Meike de Vlas had died in 2022.[citation needed]
Van Nes died on 9 October 2024, at the age of 82.
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