Eef Kamerbeek
Evert " Eef " Kamerbeek ( born March 17, 1934 in Eindhoven, † 26 August, 2008 Waalre ) was a Dutch athlete, who was 1960 Sportsman of the Year in the Netherlands.
Career
EEFS father Henk Kamerbeek in 1924 and 1928 participated in the Olympics as a hammer thrower, and was then chairman of PSV Eindhoven. Eef Kamerbeek was as a teenager one of the best Dutch athletes. In 1954, he won his first Dutch league title in the decathlon until 1964, he won this title eleven times in a row. He made a total of 23 Dutch national records to be 1962 be imputed last record in the decathlon of 7724 points, 7500 points after today valid point standings, was exceeded in 1976, his national record in the 100 - meter hurdles of 14.2 seconds that he set up in 1963 held, until 1970.
1956 Kamerbeek traveled to Melbourne to take part in the 1956 Olympic Games. Only in Melbourne, he learned that the Netherlands had canceled the participation due to the invasion of the Soviet Union in Hungary after the Hungarian national uprising. Two years later at the European Championships 1958, he finished sixth in the decathlon. About the 110- meter hurdles distance he left in the intermediate run.
At the Olympic Games in Rome in 1960 the team of the Netherlands won a silver medal and two bronze medals, all won medals swimmers. Eef Kamerbeek finished with 7236 points in fifth in the decathlon and had 573 points behind third-placed Vasily Kuznetsov of the Soviet Union and more than 1000 points behind the top two. Nevertheless, the Dutch sports press named him Sportsman of the Year, although the speed skaters January Pesman and the float had won Olympic bronze medals Wieger Mensonides.
At the European Championships 1962 in Belgrade Kamerbeek reached 7724 points, the highest score of his career, he finished in fourth place with 111 points behind the German Manfred Bock third. His last great decathlon began Kamerbeek at the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964, but broke the competition because of back discomfort after the first day.
Kamerbeek worked in various capacities for the Philips group and was partly responsible for the athletics department even at PSV Eindhoven.
At a height of 1.89 meters his competition weight was 91 kilograms.