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Kobus Vandenberg

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Kobus Vandenberg
Personal information
Full nameJacobus Vandenberg
NationalityDutch
Born (1950-07-17) 17 July 1950 (age 74)
Hilversum, Netherlands
Height1.84 m (6.0 ft)
Sailing career
ClassStar

Jacobus "Kobus" Vandenberg (born 17 July 1950, in Hilversum) is a sailor from the Netherlands. Since the Netherlands did boycott the Moscow Olympic Games Vandenberg represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics, which was boycotted by several countries, in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Boudewijn Binkhorst as helmsman, Vandenberg took the 6th place in the Star. In the 1988 Olympics in Pusan Vandenberg made his second Olympic appearance. Again in the Dutch Star this time with Steven Bakker as helmsman. They took 9th place.

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