Jetze Plat
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Jetze Plat (born 10 June 1991) is a Dutch para-cyclist in the H4 class. He also competes in the paratriathlon.
Career
[edit | edit source]Plat was born on 10 June 1991, in Amsterdam, with two stunted legs. In 1995, Plat started using a handcycle, to cycle to school. Later he started practising the sport para-cycling. In the beginning of his athletic career Plat was coached and trained by Kees van Breukelen. As Plat improved in the sport he was coached by Ralf Bekers. During the World Cup in Rome[when?], Plat qualified for the 2012 Summer Paralympics in London. Since 2013, he is coached by Guido Vroemen.[1]
In the 2016 Summer Paralympics in Rio, Plat competed in both cycling and para-triathlon. He won the paratriathlon gold medal in the PT1 class.[2] He also won a bronze medal in the Men's Road Race in H5 class. These were his first Paralympic medals.
He was one of the flag bearers for the Netherlands during the opening ceremony of the 2020 Summer Paralympics.[3][4]
In Tokyo, at the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Plat competed in both cycling and para-triathlon again. He won gold medals in the Men's H4 Road Race and Men's H4 Time Trial for cycling and a gold medal in the para-triathlon (Men's Individual PTWC).
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Website (in Dutch)
- Jetze Plat at the International Paralympic Committee Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
- Jetze Plat at TeamNL (archive) (in Dutch)
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Dutch male cyclists
- Dutch male triathletes
- Paralympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic triathletes for the Netherlands
- Paralympic medalists in cycling
- Paralympic medalists in paratriathlon
- Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Paralympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- Cyclists at the 2012 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Triathletes at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Triathletes at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Triathletes at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Cyclists from Amsterdam
- 21st-century Dutch sportsmen