Word: hendrika
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Olympic track & field events was the performances of U. S. Negroes. Major feature of the Olympic swimming was the performances of Dutch girls. The Netherlands' equivalent of Jesse Owens and No. 2 celebrity of the Games turned out to be a ponderous 17-year-old from Rotterdam named Hendrika Wilhelmina Mastenbroek, who won both the 100 and 400-metre free style races, helped her team win the 400-metre relay. Because her pretty teammate, Dina Senff, took the 100-metre backstroke title, little Holland won every swimming event on the program except the 200-metre breast stroke which went...
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