Jacq van den Berg

In this Dutch name, the surname is van den Berg, not Berg.

Jacob Ralph "Jacq" van den Berg (born 19 December 1916) is a sailor from the Netherlands who represented his country at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Naples. He was born in Birmingham. Van den Berg, as crew on the Dutch Dragon, took the 13th place with helmsman Wim van Duyl and fellow crew member Biem Dudok van Heel. In the 1956 Olympics in Melbourne Van den Berg was the Dragon crew for the Dutch Olympic team. After the Soviet invasion in Hungary, however, the Dutch government decided that the Dutch Olympic team would not compete.

Jacq van den Berg

Personal information
Full name	Jacob Ralph van den Berg
Nationality	Dutch
Born	(1916-12-19)19 December 1916 Birmingham, England
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Sailing career
Class	Dragon

References

• Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jacq van den Berg". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2014-01-09. Retrieved 2014-01-08.
• "Zeilteam voor Melbourne" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). De Tijd : godsdienstig-staatkundig dagblad. 1956-07-13. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "Olympische sporters 1956 krijgen alsnog erkenning" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). Geschiedenis 24. 2006-07-03. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "Wij hadden moeten gaan" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 1956-12-24. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "NEDERLANDS OLYMPISCHE EQUIPE" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). De Tijd De Maasbode. 1960-08-02. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "Sleeswijk toch naar O.S." (in Dutch) (Day ed.). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 1960-08-09. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "Weer een goede race van Verhagen Jaap Helder ook aan bod?" (in Dutch) (Day ed.). Nieuwsblad van het Noorden. 1960-09-02. Retrieved 2014-01-21.
• "The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume One" (PDF). 1960. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2012-10-27. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
• "The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume Two (a)" (PDF). 1960. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2011-05-23. Retrieved 2014-01-27.
• "The Games of the XVII Olympiad Rome 1960, The Official Report of the Organizing Committee Volume Two (b)" (PDF). 1960. Archived from the original (pdf) on 2012-10-29. Retrieved 2014-01-21.

External links

• Jacob Ralph van den Berg at World Sailing
• Jacob Ralph van den Berg at Olympics.com
• Jacq van den Berg at Olympedia