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Hendrik Ooms

Olympic cyclist (1916-1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ1605262 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hendrik Ooms also known as Henk Ooms (18 March 1916 – 6 December 1993) was a Dutch cyclist. He won a silver medal in Men's tandem at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Hendrik Ooms” enters the record as olympic cyclist (1916-1993). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hendrik, Ooms and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1916, 1993, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1916-03-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hendrik, Ooms and Olympic.
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Why this record matters

“Hendrik Ooms” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Hendrik, Ooms and Olympic provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1605262. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1916, 1993 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hendrik Ooms” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.