Piet van Kempen

Pieter Dingeman "Piet" van Kempen (12 December 1898 – 5 May 1985) was a Dutch track cyclist.[1] Professional from 1919 to 1942 and again in the 1950s, he competed in 108 six-day races, and won 32. Due to these successes, he was regarded as one of the best six-day racers of the era, and was given the nicknames "Flying Dutchman" and "Zwarte Piet".[2]

Piet van Kempen
van Kempen in 1936
Personal information
Full namePieter Dingeman van Kempen
Nickname"Flying Dutchman"
"Zwarte Piet"
Born(1898-12-12)12 December 1898
Ooltgensplaat, Netherlands
Died5 May 1985(1985-05-05) (aged 86)
Brussels, Belgium
Team information
DisciplineTrack
RoleRider
Rider typeSix-day racer

Six-day race wins

  • 1921: New York (with Oscar Egg)
  • 1922: Brussels (with Émile Aerts)
  • 1923: Paris (with Oscar Egg)
  • 1924: New York (with Reginald McNamara)
  • 1925: Brussels (with Émile Aerts), Paris (with Alfred Beyl)
  • 1926: Breslau (with Ernst Feja), Brussels (with Klaas van Nek)
  • 1927: Berlin (with Maurice De Wolf)
  • 1928: Chicago (with Mike Rodak), Stuttgart (with Theo Frankenstein), Dortmund (with Maurice De Wolf)
  • 1929: Stuttgart (with Paul Buschenhagen)
  • 1930: Berlin, Breslau, Brussels (with Paul Buschenhagen), Saint-Étienne (with Francis Fauré), Montreal (with Joe Laporte)
  • 1931: Breslau (with Willy Rieger)
  • 1932: Amsterdam (with Jan Pijnenburg), Paris (with Jan Pijnenburg), Marseille (with Armand Blanchonnet), Dortmund (with Jan Pijnenburg)
  • 1933: Cleveland (with Jules Audy)
  • 1934: San Francisco (with Jack McCoy), London (with Sydney Cozens), Minneapolis (with Reginald Fielding & Heinz Vopel)
  • 1935: Kansas City (with William Peden) and San Francisco (with James Corcoran)
  • 1936: Saint-Étienne (with Jean Van Buggenhout)
  • 1937: London (with Albert Buysse) and Saint-Étienne (with Jean Van Buggenhout)

References

  1. Oudejans, Frans. "Kempen, Dingeman Pieter van (1898-1985)". resources.huygens.knaw.nl. Retrieved 27 March 2023.
  2. Alfons Arenhövel: Arena der Leidenschaften. Berliner Sportpalast und seine Veranstaltungen 1910-1973 Berlin 1990, S. 260 f.
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