What is Dik Kruidenier?
{{wikify|date=March 2022}} '''Dik Kruidenier''' is a Dutch Paralympic swimmer, athlete and wheelchair basketball player. At the [[1960 Summer Paralympics]] and [[1964 Summer Paralympics]], he won a total of four silver and one bronze medal. <ref>{{Cite web|title=D. Kruidenier - Athletics, Swimming, Wheelchair Basketball {{!}} Paralympic Athlete Profile|url=https://www.paralympic.org/d-kruidenier|access-date=2022-03-11|website=International Paralympic Committee|language=en}}</ref> At the inaugural 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome, he won two silver medals in athletics and a third silver medal with the wheelchair basketball team. Four years later at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo, he won a silver and bronze medal in swimming.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gevonden in Delpher - Het vrĳe volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad|url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ddd:010955306:mpeg21:a0206|access-date=2022-03-11|website=www.delpher.nl|language=nl}}</ref> He competed in swimming in disability class 5. Kruidenier lived in Doorn where he trained at the Aardenburg military rehabilitation center.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Gevonden in Delpher - Het vrĳe volk : democratisch-socialistisch dagblad|url=https://www.delpher.nl/nl/kranten/view?coll=ddd&identifier=ddd:010955284:mpeg21:a0179|access-date=2022-03-11|website=www.delpher.nl|language=nl}}</ref> == References == <references /> {{DEFAULTSORT:Kruidenier, Dik}} [[Category:Paralympic silver medalists for the Netherlands]] [[Category:Living people]]