Janus Braspennincx

Adrianus Jacobus "Janus" Braspennincx ( born May 5, 1903 in Zundert, † January 7, 1977 in Breda ) was a Dutch cyclist.

Janus Braspennincx competed at the 1928 Olympics in Amsterdam and won the team pursuit silver medal with Jan Pijnenburg, Jacobus Maas and Piet van der Horst. In the Olympic road race he finished in 27th place

1930 Braspennincx was Dutch road champion. In 1927 he occupied at the Olympia's Tour in second place behind the German Rudolf cloud. He participated in 24 six-day races and won the 1932 Brussels with Pijnenburg.

Braspennincx came from a racing family: both his father, his uncle, his brother, his son as well as his four cousins ​​operated active cycling. The most successful was his nine years younger cousin John, the Dutch road champion twice. To distinguish between this Janus Braspennincx " Ouwe Bras " ( = Old Bras ) was called.

Cycling at the 1928 Summer Olympics Jan Pijnenburg (cyclist) Jaap Eden Marinus Valentijn Kees Pellenaars Gerrit Schulte Hans Dekkers (cyclist born 1928) Adrie Voorting Wim van Est Bas Maliepaard Albertus Geldermans Peter Post Jo de Roo Gerben Karstens Evert Dolman Joop Zoetemelk Tino Tabak Cees Priem Hennie Kuiper Jan Raas Fedor den Hertog Henk Lubberding Jos Lammertink Peter Pieters Frans Maassen Peter Winnen Tristan Hoffman Maarten den Bakker Jans Koerts Erik Dekker Koos Moerenhout Lars Boom Niki Terpstra
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