Willem Gevers

Baron Willem Johan Gijsbert Gevers (11 January 1911 23 May 1994[1]), lord of Kethel en Spaland, was a Dutch nobleman and diplomat who competed in the mid-1930s in bobsledding.

Thai PM Thanom Kittikachorn & Willem Gevers (1968)

Gevers was born in Berlin, son of the Dutch Envoy to Germany Willem Alexander Frederik Gevers. At the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, he finished tenth in the two-man event. He later became Dutch Ambassador to the United Kingdom. He died, aged 83, in Monaco.

References

  1. Willem, Gevers Johan Gijsbert at the NOS*NSF Olympic Archives


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