Evert Kroon
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| Born | September 9, 1946 Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands | |||||||||||
| Died | April 2, 2018 (aged 71) Hollandsche Rading, Netherlands | |||||||||||
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| Sport | Water polo | |||||||||||
Medal record
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Evert Gerrit Kroon (9 September 1946 – 2 April 2018)[1] was a water polo goalkeeper from The Netherlands, who participated in three consecutive Summer Olympics, starting in 1968. After two seventh-place finishes Kroon won the bronze medal with the Dutch Men's Water Polo Team at the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, Quebec, Canada. He was given the honour to carry the national flag of the Netherlands at the closing ceremony of the 1976 Summer Olympics in Montreal, becoming the thirteenth water polo player to be a flag bearer at the opening and closing ceremonies of the Olympics.[2]
See also[edit]
- Netherlands men's Olympic water polo team records and statistics
- List of Olympic medalists in water polo (men)
- List of men's Olympic water polo tournament goalkeepers
References[edit]
- ^ Evert Kroon's obituary (in Dutch)
- ^ "Evert Kroon". olympedia.org. Olympedia. Retrieved 16 July 2020.
External links[edit]
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- 1946 births
- 2018 deaths
- Sportspeople from Hilversum
- Dutch male water polo players
- Water polo goalkeepers
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands in water polo
- Water polo players at the 1968 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Water polo players at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1976 Summer Olympics
- 20th-century Dutch people
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch water polo biography stubs