Born in Haarlem, Noord-Holland, Netherlands to Petrus Johannes Dekking and Christina Petronella van der Waarden and had two children. Dekking started with bobsleigh just one winter before the 1928 Winter Olympics. In that time he did it for four consecutive months; seen at the time as a long period. At the
1928 Winter Olympics in
Saint Moritz he was part of the first Dutch bobsleigh team in the
four-man event (the Dutch didn't participate in 1924) together with
Curt van de Sandt (captain),
Hubert Menten,
Edwin Louis Teixeira de Mattos and
Jacques Delprat. The Dutch team finished 8th in the first run and finished 12th overall after the second run. ==References==