Hans Leopold HAASMAN

Netherlands
Netherlands
DivingDiving
Games Participations1
First Olympic GamesBerlin 1936
Year of Birth1916

Biography

Hans Haasmann competed in diving for the Netherlands at the 1936 Olympics, but lived in that country for only a few years during his life. He was a native of the Dutch East Indies (now Indonesia), then a Dutch territory. But he was chosen for the 1936 Olympics and traveled to the Netherlands only a few weeks before the Games began, along with swim Piet Stam, who was from Bandoeng in the East Indies . During World War II, Haasmann was made a prisoner-of-war by the Japanese, and was one of the few who survived the Burma railroad camps. After the war, he returned to the Netherlands but stayed only a short time and settled in Australia in the early 50s, where he lived for the rest of his life.

Olympic Results

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