# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/piet-van-der-kruk
# Generated: 2026-08-14T18:05:27.757Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/piet-van-der-kruk"
name: "Piet van der Kruk"
slug: "piet-van-der-kruk"
description: "Pieter \"Piet\" van der Kruk was a Dutch heavyweight weightlifter and shot putter. He won five national weightlifting titles and four shot put titles, and held the national shot put record from 1967 to 1976. He qualified for the 1968 Summer Olympics both as a shot putter and weightlifter; he chose to compete in weightlifting only and finished in ninth place."
tagline: "Dutch sportsman"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Piet_van_der_Kruk_1.JPG?width=1200"
gender: "male"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1941-08-13"
deathDate: "2020-06-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           36.91
  momentum:             2.151898734177215
  historical:           4.603456
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     30
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
sources:
  - url: "https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%D9%8A%D8%AA_%D9%81%D8%A7%D9%86_%D8%AF%D9%8A%D8%B1_%D9%83%D8%B1%D9%88%D9%83"
    title: "بيت فان دير كروك"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_der_Kruk"
    title: "Pieter van der Kruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_van_der_Kruk"
    title: "Piet van der Kruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_van_der_Kruk"
    title: "Piet van der Kruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pieter_van_der_Kruk"
    title: "Pieter van der Kruk"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2362355"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump