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.
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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.
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Lived 1941 to 2020 · aged 78
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