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| Born | 25 January 1958 Amsterdam, the Netherlands | ||||||||||
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| Sport | Cycling | ||||||||||
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Jan de Nijs (born 25 January 1958) is a retired cyclist from the Netherlands. He began as a road racer and won the national team championships in 1983. He then focused on motor-paced racing and won every national championship between 1984 and 1990; in 1984 he also won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships. [1] [2]
Carlos Alberto de Sousa Lopes, GCIH is a Portuguese former long-distance runner.
Heinrich 'Heiri' Suter was a Swiss road racing cyclist. Excelling mainly in the classics, Suter was the first non-Belgian winner of the Tour of Flanders in 1923. Two weeks after his win in the Tour of Flanders, he won Paris–Roubaix, becoming the first cyclist to win both classics in the same year. He also holds a record six victories in Züri-Metzgete, Switzerland's most important one-day race.
Daniel "Danny" Clark OAM is a retired track cyclist and road bicycle racer from Australia, who was a professional rider from 1974 to 1997. He won five world championships and at the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, West Germany, came second in the 1,000m time trial.
Niki Terpstra is a Dutch former racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2003 and 2022 for six different teams. He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Mike Terpstra. He is the third Dutch cyclist to have won both of the cobbled Monument spring classics, Paris–Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, after Jan Raas and Hennie Kuiper.
Paul Curran is a former professional English racing cyclist from Thornaby, North Yorkshire.
Nijs Cornelis Korevaar was a Dutch water polo player who won a European title in 1950. He competed in the 1948 and 1952 Summer Olympics and won a bronze medal in 1948, placing fifth in 1952. In 1948 he played all seven matches and scored four goals, and in 1952 he played all nine matches and scored at least three goals. Korevaar is the younger brother of the mathematician Jacob Korevaar. His son Jan Jaap Korevaar also became an Olympic water polo competitor.
Rob de Nijs is a Dutch singer and actor, active since the 1960s.
Jan Stender was a Dutch swimming coach. During the 1940s–1950s he raised at least eight world record holders who set more than 50 world records in total. In 1973, he was inducted to the International Swimming Hall of Fame.
Theo Verschueren is a retired Belgian cyclist. He had his best achievements in motor-paced racing, in which he won the world championships in the professionals category in 1971 and 1972 and finished second in 1969, 1970 and 1974. During his career Verschueren took part in 67 six-day road races, winning the race of Antwerp in 1968 and 1972.
Adolph Verschueren was a Belgian cyclist. As a road cyclist, he won the Tour of Flanders in 1942 and the sixth stage of Tour de Suisse in 1949.
René Kos is a retired cyclist from the Netherlands. He had his best achievements in motor-paced racing, winning the world championships in 1981 and finishing in second place in 1983; he also finished second in 1980 but was disqualified for failing the doping test. He won the national motor-paced cycling championships in 1981, 1982, 1984 and 1985.
Fritz Ryser was a Swiss cyclist. He won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1908 and finished in third place in 1901.
Guillermo Timoner Obrador is a retired Spanish cyclist. With six gold and two silver medals won in the UCI Motor-paced World Championships between 1955 and 1965 he is one of the most successful motor-paced racers of all times. During his career, which spanned 52 years, he also won 29 national titles in various cycling disciplines.
Pieter Casper Johan "Piet" Dikkentman was a professional cyclist from the Netherlands. He had a long a successful career spanning from 1885 to 1928, which peaked in 1903 when he won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships. He competed internationally and married twice, to an Australian and to a German. Consequently, while he lived most of his life in Amsterdam, he also spent years in Germany and Australia.
Erich Metze was a German professional cyclist.
Walter Lohmann was a German professional cyclist who was active between 1932 and 1957. He won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1937.
Horst Schütz is a retired German cyclist who won the UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1984.
Richard William "Fatty" Lamb was an Australian racing cyclist who competed on both road and track, as was typical of Australian cyclists of the era such as Hubert Opperman. Throughout his career, Lamb was associated with Malvern Star Bicycles and Bruce Small.
The 1981 UCI Track Cycling World Championships were the World Championship for track cycling. They took place in Brno, Czechoslovakia in 1981. Fourteen events were contested, 12 for men and 2 for women.
Arno Küttel is a Swiss former professional racing cyclist. He notably won a stage of the 1989 Tour de Suisse and the 1995 European Motor-paced Championships. He also won the bronze medal at the 1991 UCI Motor-paced World Championships.
