He had also competed in those same three distances at the Winter Olympics in Sarajevo four years earlier, but did not do much better than with a tenth place as his best result.
The closest he came to winning a second World Allround Championship was in 1986 when he finished second behind Hein Vergeer, with a difference of only 0.014 points, which translates to a mere 0.28 seconds of difference on the final distance (the 10,000 m).
Piet Hein | Birgit Hein | Piet Pieterszoon Hein | Hein-Direck Neu | Piet Hein (Denmark) | Michael P. Hein | Hein Vergeer | Hein Verbruggen | Hein Mevissen | Moe Hein | Lee Hein | Jon Hein | Jeppe Hein | Hein ter Poorten | Hein Heckroth | Hans Hein Theodor Nysom | Franz Hein |
One of his most memorable feats was finishing 4th on the 1,500 m during the 1984 Winter Olympics in Sarajevo, aged 35, and well ahead of his former compatriots, Dutchmen Hilbert van der Duim, Frits Schalij, and Hein Vergeer.