Piet Salomons
{{short description|Dutch water polo player}}
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| birth_date = 14 July 1924
| birth_place = Batavia, Dutch East Indies
| death_date = 8 October 1948 (aged 24)
| death_place = Schiedam, the Netherlands
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| sport = Water polo
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Pieter "Piet" Johannes Alexander Salomons (14 July 1924 – 8 October 1948) was a Dutch water polo goalkeeper. He played two matches at the 1948 Summer Olympics where his team won a bronze medal. A few months after the games he took his own life by jumping in front of an oncoming train.
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{{Netherlands men's water polo squad 1948 Summer Olympics}}
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Category:People from Batavia, Dutch East Indies
Category:Dutch male water polo players
Category:Water polo goalkeepers
Category:Water polo players at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands in water polo
Category:Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
Category:Suicides in the Netherlands
Category:Dutch people of the Dutch East Indies