Reinier Groenendaal (Sint-Michielsgestel, 24 April 1951) is a former professional Dutch cyclo-crosser, whose career lasted from 1978 to 1992.
He won the Dutch National Cyclo-cross Championship in 1985 (beating archrival Hennie Stamsnijder on a frozen, snowy track in Gieten [1] [2] ), and in 1984 and 1985 finished second and third, respectively, in the Superprestige competition. He is the father of former cyclo-crosser and world champion Richard Groenendaal.
Heemstede is a town and a municipality in the Netherlands, in the province of North Holland. It is the fourth richest municipality of the Netherlands.
Sven Nys is a former professional cyclist competing in cyclo-cross and mountain bike. With two world championships, seven world cups, and over 140 competitive victories, he is considered one of the best cyclo-cross racers of his generation, and remains a prominent figure in cyclo-cross. Apart from cyclo-cross, Nys is also fivefold national mountainbike champion, and has competed in that discipline in two Olympic games.
Team Jumbo–Visma is a Dutch professional bicycle racing team, successor of the former Rabobank. The team consists of four sections: ProTeam, UCI Women's Team, Continental, and Cyclo-cross.
Maria Wilhelmina Johanna "Mirjam" Melchers-Van Poppel is a female former racing cyclist from the Netherlands, married to former sprinter Jean-Paul van Poppel. She was one of the leading cyclists in the world, having held the UCI number one ranking as well as winning highly rated races. She was a one-day specialist but has managed smaller stage races.
Gieten is a village in the Dutch province of Drenthe. It is a part of the municipality of Aa en Hunze, and lies about 14 km east of Assen.
Richard Marinus Anthonius Groenendaal is a Dutch former professional cyclo-cross cyclist. Groenendaal won the UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in 2000 and the overall titles in the UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup 1997–1998, 2000–2001 and 2003–2004 and in the Cyclo-cross Superprestige in 1997–1998 and 2000–2001.
Marianne Vos is a Dutch multi-discipline cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's Continental Team Team Jumbo–Visma.
Niels Albert is a former professional cyclo-cross racing cyclist who currently resides in Tremelo. He became World Champion twice, in 2009 and 2012.
Daphny van den Brand, is a Dutch cyclo-cross, road bicycle and mountain bike racer.
Lars Anthonius Johannes Boom is a professional cyclo-cross and mountain bike racing cyclist from the Netherlands. He has also competed professionally in road racing, between 2004 and 2019.
Reinier is the Dutch form of the Germanic masculine given name Raginheri, composed of the two elements ragin ("advice") and heri ("army"). It is equivalent to Scandinavian Ragnar, German Rainer, French Rainier, and Spanish and Italian Raniero. An archaic spelling is Reynier or Reijnier. People with the name Reinier include:
Adrie van der Poel is a retired Dutch cyclist. Van der Poel was a professional from 1981 to 2000. His biggest wins included six classics, two stages of the Tour de France and the World Cyclo-Cross Championships in 1996. He also obtained the second place and silver medal in the World Road Championships in 1983 behind Greg LeMond and five second places in the World Cyclo-Cross championships. The Grand Prix Adrie van der Poel is named after him.
Kevin Pauwels is a Belgian former professional racing cyclist, who rode professionally between 2004 and 2019 for the Fidea and Pauwels Sauzen–Bingoal teams. Pauwels retired on 24 February 2019 after winning the Sluitingsprijs Oostmalle.
Baloise-Trek Lions is a UCI Continental cycling team based in Belgium which focuses predominantly on the cyclo-cross season. The team is named after its main sponsors Baloise and Trek. The team had various different names in the past amongstr which Spaar-Select and Telenet-Fidea.
Nikki Louise Brammeier is an English former professional racing cyclist from Draycott, Derbyshire. She began cycling at five and has won championships in various disciplines. Brammeier has competed in international events including the UCI Track Cycling World Cup Classics and the Commonwealth Games. She won her first UCI Cyclo-cross World Cup in 2015 at Cyclo-cross Namur.
Bart Aernouts is a Belgian former professional cyclist who competed mainly in cyclo-cross races. Aernouts often finished only a few places behind big names such as Sven Nys, Niels Albert and Zdeněk Štybar, but occasionally managed top results in high calibre races of the Gazet van Antwerpen Trophy or the Superprestige.
Sabrina Stultiens is a Dutch road and cyclo-cross racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI Women's WorldTeam Liv Racing–Xstra.
Quinten Hermans is a Belgian road and cyclo-cross cyclist, who currently rides for UCI WorldTeam Intermarché–Wanty–Gobert Matériaux in road racing, and UCI Cyclo-cross team Tormans, in cyclo-cross.
Ceylin del Carmen Alvarado is a Dominican-born Dutch cyclist, who currently competes in cyclo-cross for UCI Cyclo-cross Team Alpecin–Fenix, and in road cycling for UCI Women's Continental Team Plantur–Pura. In 2018, she won the gold medal in the Under-23 race at the UEC European Cyclo-cross Championships in Rosmalen. She repeated this feat in 2019. On 1 February 2020 she became world champion in the elite category at the 2020 UCI Cyclo-cross World Championships in Dübendorf, Switzerland.
Groenendaal is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: