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Mulier Institute

On April 12th 2002, Dutch sport researchers and sport scientists joined forces in the W.J.H. Mulier Institute, Centre for Research on Sports in Society. The institute is named after W.J.H. (Pim) Mulier (1865-1954), who may be regarded as the patriarch of Dutch organised sport. He was (partly) responsible for the foundation of the Dutch Football Association (KNVB), the Dutch Athletics Union (KNAU) and the International Ice-Skating Union (ISU) and was also one of the initiators of several major sporting events, such as the Eleven Cities ice-skating marathon and the International Nijmegen Four Day Marches