Karel Heijting

Karel Heijting
Personal information
Date of birth (1883-05-01)1 May 1883
Place of birth Kutoarjo, Dutch East Indies
Date of death 14 June 1951(1951-06-14) (aged 68)
Place of death Boulogne-Billancourt, France
Youth career
Swift
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1900-1910 HVV
1910-1912 Red Star Amical
International career
1907-1910 Netherlands 17 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Olympic medal record
Men's Football
Bronze medal – third place1908 LondonTeam competition

Karel Heijting (born 1 May 1883 in Kutoarjo, Central Java, Dutch East Indies – died June 1951 in Paris, France) was a Dutch football player who competed in the 1908 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Dutch team, which won the bronze medal in the football tournament.[1]

Born on Java, Dutch East Indies, he played 10 years for HVV, then moved to work for a bank in Paris and joined the Red Star Amical Club football team. Heijting was only one of four of his battalion who survived the Battle of Arras in May 1915 during World War I. After being injured he recovered and was sent to a Prisoner of War camp in Germany where he stayed until the end of the war.[2]

He played 17 matches for the Netherlands national football team.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Karel Heijting". Olympedia. Retrieved 27 March 2021.
  2. ↑ Snepvangers, Matthijs (23 June 2019). "Hoe een Haagse voetbalinternational op de slagvelden van de Eerste Wereldoorlog terechtkwam". Omroep West (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
  3. ↑ "Karel Heijting". OnsOranje (Dutch FA) (in Dutch). Retrieved 25 April 2026.
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