24 hours of Schiedam

June 3rd and 4th, 2000

This year it was up to the R.W.V. to host the Dutch Walkingweekend. There were several distances (for a full overview visit the R.W.V.-website via the links) such as a 50 km, a 50 miles (80 km), a 100 km and a 24 hours/100 miles. Just like two years ago the wheather was terrible. The races started with high temperatures (25 degrees C) and a very high humidity (appr. 100%). Later on rain would fall, adding to the humidity.

The race started on Saturday at 12.00 o'clock on a dog-leg (up and down a road twice), followed by laps of 3.887 km. At approximately 10.30 on Sunday the remaining walkers switched to laps of 0.988 km. The laps took the walkers through the Beatrixpark (named after the Dutch Queen) on the north side of Schiedam (which is north of Rotterdam).

The 100 miles saw only 28 participants, clearly a result of the large number of new Continental Centurions the year before in Weert. Luckily the shorter distances attracted somewhat more people than normal. These are the results (also listed are the people who stopped, because otherwise there would hardly be anything to report):

100 miles

place

name

man/woman

club

country

year of birth

time

distance (km)

1

Dirk Nicque

m

Wetteren

BEL

63

17.26.20

160.928

2

Marcel Dekker

m

LAT/VVV/RWV

HOL

58

19.51.36

160.928

3

Sandra Brown

w

Surrey WC

GBR

49

20.41.01

160.928

4

Rieks Haan

m

RWV

HOL

65

20.43.48

160.928

5

Manfred Loch

m

CWV

GER

49

21.21.04

160.928

6

Frans Devoght

m

Turnhout

BEL

39

23.01.16

160.928

7

Ronald van Meensel

m

RWV

BEL

64

23.06.35

160.928

7

Robert de Wolf

m

BEL

47

23.06.35

160.928

9

Aaf Peters-de Rijk

w

SV de LAT

HOL

53

23.08.07

160.928

10

Joop Flipse

m

RWV

HOL

54

23.11.43

160.928

11

Rob Wiche

m

RWV

HOL

48

23.42.36

160.928

Joop Wissink

m

RWV

HOL

25

24.03.56

155.130

Piet van der Kroft

m

RWV

HOL

44

24.06.36

152.231

Gerrit Nederlof

m

RWV/LAT

HOL

37

24.02.58

146.368

Co de Jong

m

RWV

HOL

47

16.57.18

125.945

Niko van Hagen

m

RWV

HOL

50

16.50.45

118.171

Loes Grundmann

w

sv de LAT

HOL

46

16.27.52

106.510

Leon Krabbendam

m

RWV

HOL

74

13.00.54

102.623

Ingrid Schrik

w

RWV

HOL

58

15.57.15

102.623

Aat van't Oor

m

RWV

HOL

42

11.47.37

87.075

Jan Vos

m

RWV

HOL

38

09.01.51

71.527

Amade de Buck

m

HOL

34

11.09.14

71.527

Theo Plate

m

RWV

HOL

48

09.40.54

67.640

Dave Bindervoet

m

RWV

HOL

40

08.55.43

63.753

Gerrit de Jong

m

Avantri

HOL

42

09.00.44

63.753

Frans Leijtens

m

RWV

HOL

76

06.54.14

52.092

Gerard van der Klift

m

RWV

HOL

38

07.27.14

52.092

Harry Littel

m

RWV

HOL

53

05.09.00

36.544

24 hours

1

Marcel Dekker

m

LAT/VVV/RWV

HOL

58

24.05.05

188.137

2

Frans Devoght

m

Turnhout

BEL

39

24.04.56

168.767

3

Joop Flipse

m

RWV

HOL

54

24.07.58

166.791

4

Rob Wiche

m

RWV

HOL

48

24.07.53

163.892

5

Dirk Nicque

m

Wetteren

BEL

63

17.26.20

160.928

6

Sandra Brown

w

Surrey WC

GBR

49

20.41.01

160.928

7

Rieks Haan

m

RWV

HOL

65

20.43.48

160.928

8

Manfred Loch

m

CWV

GER

49

21.21.04

160.928

9

Ronald van Meensel

m

RWV

BEL

64

23.06.35

160.928

10

Robert de Wolf

m

BEL

47

23.06.35

160.928

11

Aaf Peters-de Rijk

w

SV de LAT

HOL

53

23.08.07

160.928

12

Joop Wissink

m

RWV

HOL

25

24.03.56

155.130

13

Piet van der Kroft

m

RWV

HOL

44

24.06.36

152.231

14

Gerrit Nederlof

m

RWV/LAT

HOL

37

24.02.58

146.368

 

There are 'only' 4 new Continental Centurions this year, whos numbers are:

Dirk Nicque

297

Frans Devoght

298

Robert de Wolf

299

Joop Flipse

300

 

Next year, the O.L.A.T. will host the event again, probably in Weert. We look forward to better wheather and of course a lot more participants.