Hendrik (Henk) Ooms (Halfweg, March 18, 1916 - The Hague, December 6, 1993) was a Dutch cyclist cyclist.
Ooms participated in the Summer Olympics in 1936, winning a silver medal on the 2,000-meter sprint on the tandem component together with Bernard Leene. He became third in the sprint at the World Cup championship in 1937 with the amateurs. He also sprinted Dutch champion at the track cycling with the amateurs in 1937 and 1938. In 1944 and 1945 he went to the professionals. He was a son of Willem Ooms, an Olympic cyclist in the 1920s. Both were members of H.S.C. The Bataaf.
After the Second World War, the family lived for a while in Brussels and Ooms developed later wheels for roller skating and roller hockey. Ooms was at the base of roller hockey in the Netherlands and in 1947 he founded a job, the Marathon-Rinck, in The Hague and he was active at e.h.r.c. Marathon.
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