Jan-Just Bos

Jan Justus "Jan-Just" Bos (28 July 1939 – 24 March 2003) was a Dutch botanist, television presenter, and rower who competed in the 1960 and 1964 Summer Olympics.While a student in Wageningen, he was the coxwain of the Dutch coxed pair, which was eliminated in the repechage at the 1960 Olympics.Four years later he won a bronze medal in the same event, together with Erik Hartsuiker and Herman Rouwé.In 1984 he defended a PhD on a study of the plants of the genus Dracaena in West Africa.You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.This biographical article relating to Dutch rowing is a stub.
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