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| Full name | Ben Kouwenhoven | ||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Dutch | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 16 November 1965 Sneek | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.86 m (6.1 ft) | ||||||||||||||
| Sailing career | |||||||||||||||
| Class(es) | 470, 49er | ||||||||||||||
Competition record
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| Updated on 19 February 2014 | |||||||||||||||
Ben Kouwenhoven (born 16 November 1965, in Sneek) is a sailor from the Netherlands, [1] who represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics [2] [3] in Barcelona. [4] Kouwenhoven as helmsman in the Dutch Men's 470 with his twin brother Jan Kouwenhoven as crew took the 16th place. [5] In 1996 Kouwenhoven returned to the Olympics in Savannah, Georgia. Again with his brother, Kouwenhoven took 24th place in the Men's 470. [1]