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...HENK W. O. TIDDENS Rijswijk, Holland...
...Pumping furiously, Russian Factory Worker Viktor Kosichkin, 25, swept to an easy victory over Defending Champion Henk van der Grift of The Netherlands in the world speed-skating championships at Moscow. The lone American, Illinois' Eddie Rudolph, placed seventh in the 1,500-meter, 18th in the 1,500-meter, failed to qualify for the 10,000-meter final...
Gradually, Henk's solitary practice began to take effect. By last February, at the age of 19, Henk had become good enough to finish tenth in the 500-meter sprint at the Winter Olympics in Squaw Valley. The taste of success made him train all the harder. With his own special diet (no onions or fats), he built himself into a wiry 150 lbs. He often got a free hour from his job as an auto mechanic to do some road work, but he needed to practice on ice. Last year Henk took his fiancee and headed...
Even so, when Henk entered the world championships in Göteborg, Sweden, last week, some 100 pessimistic Dutchmen flew over to watch him lose gracefully. Henk started fast by winning second place in the 500 meters, first in the 1,500 meters -the two short races on the program. But he finished twelfth in the unfamiliar 5,000 meters. To win the overall title from Russia's great Viktor Kosichkin, Henk knew he had to come within 20 sec. of his rival's time in the exhausting 10,000 meters...
...behind with three laps still to go. Suddenly the years of conditioning paid off. Zooming into the turns like a sprinter, Henk picked up a second on the next to last lap, shaved off another 1.3 sec. on the final lap. With one final burst, he shot across the finish line 17.7 sec. behind Kosichkin's time to become Holland's first world champion in skating since 1905. All Holland prepared to celebrate the victory of Henk van der Grift and his silver skates...