Alida van den Bos

Dutch artistic gymnast
Olympic medal record
Women's gymnastics
Representing the  Netherlands
Gold medal – first place 1928 Amsterdam Team

Alida "Alie" Johanna van den Bos (18 January 1902, in Amsterdam – 16 July 2003, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch gymnast who competed in the 1928 Summer Olympics.

In 1928 she won the gold medal as member of the Dutch gymnastics team.

Van den Bos died in 2003 at age 101, she was the last person of the Dutch Team at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics to die, most majority of 1928 Dutch team was murdered by Nazi German SS military officials in the Sobibor concentration camp in the Holocaust.

References

  • Alida van den Bos' profile at databaseOlympics
  • Obituary at the International Society of Olympic Historians Archived 2010-08-08 at the Wayback Machine


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