Henk van Gent

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Henk van Gent
Personal information
Full nameHendrik Maarten van Gent
NationalityDutch
Born (1951-05-10) 10 May 1951 (age 72)
Rotterdam
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Sailing career
Class 470
Updated on 2014-01-09.

Hendrik Maarten "Henk" van Gent (born 10 May 1951 in Rotterdam) is a sailor from the Netherlands. A physical education teacher by training, he runs a sailing school in Rotterdam.

When the Netherlands boycotted the 1980 Moscow Olympic Games, he represented his National Olympic Committee at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Tallinn, USSR under the Dutch NOC flag. With Jan Willem van den Hondel as crew, he took 4th place in the 470.

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