Piet van Kempen

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".

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)