He was the first man to run under 3:30.00 for the 1500 metres, just beating Saïd Aouita in Nice (running 3:29.67 to Aouita's 3:29.71).
V provinci so bila naslednja velika naselja: "Castra Vetera" in "Colonia Ulpia Traiana", obe v bližini sedanjega Xantena, "Coriovallum" (Heerlen), "Albaniana" (Alphen aan den Rijn), "Lugdunum Batavorum" (Katwijk), "Forum Hadriani" (Voorburg), "Ulpia Noviomagus Batavorum" (Nijmegen), "Traiectum" (Utrecht), "Atuatuca Tungrorum" (Tongeren), "Bona" (Bonn) in "Colonia Agrippinensis" (Köln), ki je bil glavno mesto province.