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Siegfried Willem "Wim" Esajas (16 April 1935 – 30 April 2005) was a Surinamese middle-distance runner who qualified for the athletics at the men's 800 m event at the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, Italy and was supposed to be the first Surinamese Olympian. Esajas missed the event, and it was alleged that he overslept it, whereas he was simply given a wrong starting time by Fred Glans, the head of Suriname's Olympic delegation.
Esajas was a multiple national record holder in the 800 m, 1500 m and 3000 m events in the 1950s, and was selected as the Surinamese Sportman of the Year in 1956. He retired from sport after the 1960 Olympics, graduated in horticulture from a college in Deventer, the Netherlands, and returned to Suriname to grow flowers.
In 2005, Suriname's Olympic Committee presented Esajas with a plaque honoring him as Suriname's first Olympian and with a letter of apology for the mistake made by its official in 1960. Esajas died on 30 April 2005 of an undisclosed illness. He had a son, Werner.




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Wim Esajas at Olympedia

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• Daftar pembawa bendera Suriname pada Olimpiade
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• Suriname at the 1960 Summer Olympics
• Deaths in April 2005
• 1960 Summer Olympics
• List of Surinamese people
• Eddy Monsels
• Te land, ter zee en in de lucht
• Athletics at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's 800 metres
• List of flag bearers for Suriname at the Olympics