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| show-medals = yes }} Herman Jan "John" Semmelink (December 17, 1938 – February 7, 1959) was an alpine ski racer from Canada. Born in Shanghai, China, he was the eldest son of Richard Herman Semmelink and Margaretha Catharina Visser of the Netherlands.() His father had held positions at KLM and the Java-China-Japan Line. During World War II, the Semmelink family was interned in the Santo Tomas Internment Camp in Manila, Philippines.() The family relocated to Canada 1950 and he became a naturalized citizen in 1957.〔 Semmelink was enrolled at McGill University in Montreal for a year.〔 Semmelink won the Commonwealth ski championship in St. Moritz in January 1958,〔 and competed at the World Championships in 1958 at Bad Gastein, Austria. ==Death and legacy== The following year, Semmelink entered the Arlberg-Kandahar downhill race on the Kreuzeck at Garmisch in Bavaria, West Germany. Held on an icy course in challenging conditions of fog and flat light, Semmerlink was the 44th racer on the course. At a lower section named ''Himmelreich'' (heaven) just from the finish, witnesses said one of his bindings opened and he crashed into a rock-filled gully. Semmerlink had a serious head injury and was taken by U.S. Army helicopter to a nearby U.S. military dispensary, but died of his injuries. Of the 89 starters, 39 did not finish the race.〔〔 At the request of his parents, Semmelink's body remained in West Germany and he was buried at Garmisch-Partenkirchen. His father stated, "My son loved the mountains above everything and he shall find his last rest here in the mountains." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「John Semmelink」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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