Famous People with Name Bas

Bas Van Velthoven            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Bas Van Velthoven: is a Dutch Swimmer[2] who specializes in Freestyle. He is currently training in Amsterdam together with Nick Driebergen, Femke Heemskerk and Chantal Groot with coach Martin Truijens.

Bas De Bever            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Bas De Bever: is a formerDutch professional "Mid/Current School" Bicycle Motocross (BMX) racer whose prime competitive years were from 1985-1993.

Bas Peters            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Bas Peters: is a Dutch cyclist specializing in competitive mountain biking.Peters represented the Netherlands at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens where he finished in 13th position where his team mate Bart Brentjens won the bronze medal.

Bas Verwijlen            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Bas Verwijlen: is a fencer from the Netherlands.[1] He started fencing when he was five years old at fencing club Zaal Verwijlen in Oss, owned by his father Roel Verwijlen, who is also the Dutch national coach.[1] Until his twelfth he fights with two weapons, but since then he only choose to fight with the épée.[1] He became part of the Dutch national team and took part in the Universiade (17th in Beijing, 2001), Youth Olympics, Dutch national championships, but also European and World Championships.[1] As a junior he won eleven national titles, he became third at the World Championships under-16 in the United States and represented the Netherlands at every European and World Championship since 1998.[1] He won two World Cups for Juniors, a performance never achieved by another fencer.[1]

Bas Eickhout            Origin/Culture/Country: Dutch

Bas Eickhout: is a Dutch politician for the GreenLeft. He has been elected to the European Parliament in the 2009 election. Since 2000 he worked as a researcher at the Netherlands National Institute for Public Health and the Environment. He worked on several projects which had to do with transnational environmental problems such as climate change. He also co-authored the IPCC report on climate change. He also was the organizations spokesperson on the sustainability of biofuels. Since the 1990s Eickhout has been active in the GreenLeft, he co-authored the 2006 election manifesto and he was a candidate in the 2004 European Parliament election (#6, the party got only two seats). Between 2008 and 2009 he was a member of the committee-Van Ojik which wrote the new party platform. Moreover he is a member of the GreenLeft delegation to the European Green Party.