Word: mastenbroek
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Dates: during 1936-1936
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...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 to Japan...
...keep their weight down, Dutch swimmers train on beans, go in heavily for dancing. That this process is eminently successful, Dutch trainers feel to be conclusively proved by the fact that Swimmer Mastenbroek, whose hobby is cooking, weighs a mere 150 Ib. while 18-year-old Willy den Ouden, until last week rated the world's ablest girl free-style swimmer, as yet shows few signs of outgrowing her 242-lb. mother...
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