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Piet van Kempen

van Kempen in 1936
Personal information
Full name	Pieter Dingeman van Kempen
Nickname	"Flying Dutchman" "Zwarte Piet"
Born	(1898-12-12)12 December 1898 Ooltgensplaat, Netherlands
Died	5 May 1985(1985-05-05) (aged 86) Brussels, Belgium
Team information
Discipline	Track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Six-day racer

Pieter Dingeman "Piet" van Kempen (12 December 1898 – 5 May 1985) was a Dutch track cyclist. Professional from 1919 to 1942 and again in the 1950s, he competed in 108 six-day races, and won 32. Due to these successes, he was regarded as one of the best six-day racers of the era, and was given the nicknames "Flying Dutchman" and "Zwarte Piet".

Piet van Kempen, 1898-1985

Six-day race wins

• 1921: New York (with Oscar Egg)
• 1922: Brussels (with Émile Aerts)
• 1923: Paris (with Oscar Egg)
• 1924: New York (with Reginald McNamara)
• 1925: Brussels (with Émile Aerts), Paris (with Alfred Beyl)
• 1926: Breslau (with Ernst Feja), Brussels (with Klaas van Nek)
• 1927: Berlin (with Maurice De Wolf)
• 1928: Chicago (with Mike Rodak), Stuttgart (with Theo Frankenstein), Dortmund (with Maurice De Wolf)
• 1929: Stuttgart (with Paul Buschenhagen)
• 1930: Berlin, Breslau, Brussels (with Paul Buschenhagen), Saint-Étienne (with Francis Fauré), Montreal (with Joe Laporte)
• 1931: Breslau (with Willy Rieger)
• 1932: Amsterdam (with Jan Pijnenburg), Paris (with Jan Pijnenburg), Marseille (with Armand Blanchonnet), Dortmund (with Jan Pijnenburg)
• 1933: Cleveland (with Jules Audy)
• 1934: San Francisco (with Jack McCoy), London (with Sydney Cozens), Minneapolis (with Reginald Fielding & Heinz Vopel)
• 1935: Kansas City (with William Peden) and San Francisco (with James Corcoran)
• 1936: Saint-Étienne (with Jean Van Buggenhout)
• 1937: London (with Albert Buysse) and Saint-Étienne (with Jean Van Buggenhout)