Gerard Jacobs

Dutch table tennis player
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IntroDutch table tennis player
PlacesNetherlands
isAthlete Table tennis player
Work fieldSports
Gender
Male
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Biography

Gerard J. Jacobs is a Dutch Paralympic table tennis player. He won one gold and two silver medals at the 1964 Summer Paralympics.

At the opening of the 1960 Summer Paralympics in Rome, he won the silver medal in the Men's Doubles A event together with Piet van Aart. Four years later at the 1964 Summer Paralympics in Tokyo he won together with Marion de Groot the gold medal, and individually the silver medal in the Men's Singles A1 event. He won two silver medals at the 1965 World Championships.

Jacobs lived in Doorn near the Aardenburg military rehabilitation center. There, several Paralympic sports could be practiced.

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