Janus Ooms

In 1886, a group of interested sportsmen established a regatta in Amsterdam after meeting at the café Suisse "to establish the “Committee for the Championships of the Netherlands for gentlemen amateurs in single scull outriggers".

[1] Five years later, in 1891, Ooms won the French Rowing championship (skiff), created in 1876 (first foreigner).

[2] One year later, in 1892, Ooms became the first competitor from outside the United Kingdom to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley.

[4] After Ooms' victory, the Dutch Rowing Club awarded him a Golden Belt with the figure of a rower on it.

In 1921 he passed this on to the next Dutch rower to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls Frits Eijken.