Maarten van Dulm

Maarten van Dulm (4 August 1879 25 April 1949) was a vice-admiral of the Royal Dutch Navy[1] and olympic fencer.

Maarten van Dulm
Personal information
Born(1879-08-04)4 August 1879
Arnhem, Netherlands
Died25 April 1949(1949-04-25) (aged 69)
Wassenaar, Netherlands
Sport
SportFencing

Van Dulm participated at the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, in the single and team sabre competition and the team sabre competition respectively. He won a bronze medal in the team sabre competition in 1924.[2][3]

Van Dulm joined the Royal Netherlands Navy in 1900 and was editor of the naval newspaper (Marineblad) from 1919 to 1922. He became a commander in 1924 and would eventually rise to the rank of vice-admiral. He was commander in chief of the Dutch East-India fleet from 1934-1936.

Honours

References

  1. (in Dutch) Het falen van de Nederlandse gewapende neutraliteit, september 1939 - mei 1940, T. van Gent, 2009, dissertation at the Institutional repository of the University of Amsterdam
  2. "Olympics Statistics: Maarten van Dulm". databaseolympics.com. Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
  3. "Maarten van Dulm Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 27 March 2010.
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