Kobus Vandenberg Explained

Kobus Vandenberg
Fullname:	Jacobus Vandenberg
Nationality:	Dutch
Birth Date:	1950 7, df=yes
Birth Place:	Hilversum, Netherlands
Height:	1.84m (06.04feet)
Classes:	Star
Show-Medals:	yes

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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• Book: Official Report,Volume 2: Competition, Summary and Results . Seoul Olympic Organizing Committee . Seoul . 1989 . PDF . 31 January 2014.