{{short description|Dutch rower}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2018}} '''J.J.K (Janus) Ooms''' (15 Augustus 1866, in Amsterdam – 6 November 1924, in Amsterdam) was a Dutch rower who was the first non-Briton to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley Royal Regatta (in 1892). 300px|thumb|Janus Ooms (1891). Ooms rowed for Neptune Rowing Club, Amsterdam, and was trained by Rudolf Meurer who also trained the Olympic champions François Brandt and Roelof Klein. 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".<ref>[http://www.hollandbeker.nl/page/13 International Rowing Regatta Amsterdam]</ref>

Five years later, in 1891, Ooms won the French Rowing championship (skiff), created in 1876 (first foreigner).<ref>Encyclopédie des sports. Volume 4 / sous la direction de Philippe Daryl, 1895, p.205.</ref>

One year later, in 1892, Ooms became the first competitor from outside the United Kingdom to win the Diamond Challenge Sculls at Henley.<ref>[http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1839-1939.htm Henley Royal Regatta Results of Final Races 1839–1939] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120309113109/http://www.rowinghistory.net/HRR%20US/hrr_1839-1939.htm |date=9 March 2012 }}</ref> On his return to Amsterdam he was greeted by huge crowds and a fireworks display.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.sportgeschiedenis.nl/2009/03/17/vergeten-sporthelden-janus-ooms.aspx |title=Forgotten sports heroes: Janus Ooms |access-date=21 February 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100721200300/http://www.sportgeschiedenis.nl/2009/03/17/vergeten-sporthelden-janus-ooms.aspx |archive-date=21 July 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref>

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.<ref>[http://www.nlroei.nl/displayarticle-1500.html NLroei Van Oupen receives the Golden Belt] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110716212947/http://www.nlroei.nl/displayarticle-1500.html |date=16 July 2011 }}</ref>

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