Hennie Kuiper
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| Full name | Hendrikus Andreas Kuiper | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 3 February 1949 Denekamp,Netherlands | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | All-Rounder | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1973–1974 | Rokado–De Gribaldy | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Frisol–G.B.C. | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | TI–Raleigh–Campagnolo | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Peugeot–Esso–Michelin | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1983 | DAF Trucks–Côte d'Or | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Verandalux–Dries | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | Skala-Skil | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Sigma–Fina | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper(born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professionalroad racing cyclist.His career includes a gold medal in the Olympicroad raceatMunichin 1972, becomingworld professional road race championin 1975, as well as winning four of the five"Monument" classics.He rode theTour de France12 times, finishing second twice and winning the stage toAlpe d'Huezon two occasions. Kuiper,Ercole BaldiniandPaolo Bettiniare the only riders to have won both the Olympic road race and the world professional road race.
Biography
[edit]Kuiper was born inDenekamp,inOverijsselprovince. His serious introduction to the bicycle was to and from school inEnschede.He started participating in junior races from 14 and from 19 to 23 he won 39 times as an amateur. The climax of his amateur career was gold in theOlympic road race in Munich in 1972,riding the final 40 km alone.[1]He also won theTour of Britain (Milk Race)that year.
Professional career
[edit]Kuiper turned professional in 1973 with the small German team Haro-Rokado. His career took off in 1975 when he signed for the Dutch team, Frisol, where he got more chances to shine and formed a partnership withJosé De Cauwer(who worked for Kuiper in races) that lasted until 1980. The 1975 season saw Kuiper become world champion atYvoirin Belgium, winning a tough race over 260 km, with 21 ascents of a 3 km (2 mi) climb.
Kuiper signed forTI–Raleighin 1976 and finished second in the1977 Tour de France48 seconds behindBernard Thévenet,who later admitted usingsteroids.Kuiper won the mountain stage at Alpe d'Huez, a feat he repeated in1978.Kuiper finished fourth in the1979 Tourand second in1980behind fellow DutchmanJoop Zoetemelk.That second place ended his best years as a stage race rider and in 1981 he moved to DAF Trucks and reinvented himself as a one-day classics rider. 1981 saw him win theTour of Flandersand theGiro di Lombardiawhile in 1983 he wonParis–Roubaix,his 11th attempt at thehell of the north.In 1985, at 36, he wonMilan–San Remo.His retirement came on 6 November 1988 at 39 at a small cyclo-cross atOldenzaalin his home province.
Team manager
[edit]After retirement Kuiper managed the small German pro squad Team Stuttgart between 1989 and 1990. In 1991 he became head of theTelekomteam. In 1992 he was approached byJim Ochowicz,manager of the American Motorola team, to become assistant team manager. Kuiper stayed with Motorola for four years. Since 1997 he has worked for theRabobankteam in public relations, as well as coaching the Dutch national team on occasions. He has two sons from his first marriage with Ine Nolten: Patrick Kuiper and Bjorn Kuiper. He lives with his second wife, Marianne, in Lonneker.
Career achievements
[edit]Major results
[edit]- 1970
- 3rd Overall Tour of Yugoslavia
- 1st Stage 2
- 1971
- 1st
Overall Circuit de Saône-et-Loire - 1st Stage 5 Tour of Yugoslavia
- 1st Stage 1a Trois jours de Hénin Liétard
- 3rd OverallRheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt
- 1st Stage 7
- 1972
- 1st
Road race,Olympic Games - 1stOverallMilk Race
- 1stOverallRonde van Drenthe
- 2nd OverallTour du Limousin
- 10th OverallTrophée Peugeot de l'Avenir
- 1973
- 1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Aude
- 2ndZüri-Metzgete
- 4th OverallTour de Luxembourg
- 5thAmstel Gold Race
- 10th OverallVolta a Catalunya
- 1974
- 1stOverall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- 1stGP Union Dortmund
- 2ndParis–Camembert
- 7th OverallParis–Nice
- 7th OverallVolta a Catalunya
- 9thZüri-Metzgete
- 1975
- 1st
Road race,UCI Road World Championships - 1st
Road race,National Road Championships - 2ndGrand Prix Le Télégramme de Brest
- 2ndKampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 3rdTrofeo Baracchi
- 4th OverallTour de Luxembourg
- 5th OverallVuelta a España
- 1st Stage 18
- 7thParis–Brussels
- 9th OverallTirreno–Adriatico
- 9thAmstel Gold Race
- 10th OverallTour of the Netherlands
- 1976
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 4 & 5a (TTT)
- 2nd OverallParis–Nice
- 2nd OverallVuelta a Andalucía
- 2ndOmloop Het Volk
- 2ndParis–Brussels
- 3rdRoad race,National Road Championships
- 4thParis–Roubaix
- 5thLiège–Bastogne–Liège
- 5thAmstel Gold Race
- 6th OverallVuelta a España
- 1st Stage 4
- 1stOverallTour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 3
- 10th OverallTour of the Netherlands
- 1977
- 2nd OverallTour de France
- 1st Stage 17
- 2nd OverallVuelta a Andalucía
- 3rdAmstel Gold Race
- 3rdParis–Tours
- 4thRoad race,UCI Road World Championships
- 6thParis–Brussels
- 4th OverallFour Days of Dunkirk
- 8th OverallTour de Luxembourg
- 10thParis–Roubaix
- 10thTour of Flanders
- 1978
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 4 (TTT) & 16
- 2nd OverallTour de Romandie
- 2ndTrofeo Baracchi
- 3rdRund um den Henninger Turm
- 3rdGrand Prix des Nations
- 4th OverallTour de Suisse
- 5th OverallTour Méditerranéen
- 5thAmstel Gold Race
- 6thLiège–Bastogne–Liège
- 6thParis–Roubaix
- 6thLa Flèche Wallonne
- 7th OverallParis–Nice
- 9th OverallCritérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Prologue
- 1979
- 3rdParis–Roubaix
- 4th OverallTour de France
- 4th OverallCritérium National de la Route
- 5th OverallGrand Prix du Midi Libre
- 6thGrand Prix de Wallonie
- 7th OverallTour de l'Aude
- 7thTour of Flanders
- 7thGrand Prix des Nations
- 8th OverallFour Days of Dunkirk
- 8th OverallTour Méditerranéen
- 9thLa Flèche Wallonne
- 10thGiro di Lombardia
- 10thGent–Wevelgem
- 1980
- 2nd OverallTour de France
- 2nd Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire
- 2ndLiège–Bastogne–Liège
- 4th OverallCritérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 4thParis–Brussels
- 5th OverallGrand Prix du Midi Libre
- 5thGiro di Lombardia
- 7thLa Flèche Wallonne
- 7thGrand Prix de Wallonie
- 8thGent–Wevelgem
- 1981
- 1stGiro di Lombardia
- 1stTour of Flanders
- 2nd OverallTour of the Netherlands
- 6thParis–Roubaix
- 6thGiro dell'Emilia
- 6thNationale Sluitingsprijs
- 7thE3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 8thParis–Tours
- 9thRund um den Henninger Turm
- 1982
- 1stGrand Prix de Wallonie
- 2nd OverallTour de Luxembourg
- 2ndTrofeo Baracchi
- 5thLa Flèche Wallonne
- 6thAmstel Gold Race
- 6thBrabantse Pijl
- 6thParis–Tours
- 7th OverallParis–Nice
- 8thParis–Brussels
- 9th OverallTour de France
- 10thGiro di Lombardia
- 1983
- 1stParis–Roubaix
- 2ndTrofeo Baracchi
- 4thGiro di Lombardia
- 5th OverallVuelta a España
- 6thLiège–Bastogne–Liège
- 1984
- 6thGrand Prix de Fourmies
- 9thParis–Roubaix
- 10thZüri-Metzgete
- 1985
- 1stMilan–San Remo
- 3rdTour of Flanders
- 5thBordeaux–Paris
- 6thKuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 8thParis–Roubaix
- 10thTrofeo Laigueglia
- 1986
- 10thE3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 1987
- 5thRund um den Henninger Turm
- 1988
- 3rdVeenendaal–Veenendaal Classic
- 8thGrand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise
- 10th OverallCritérium International
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit]| Grand Tour | 1973 | 1974 | 1975 | 1976 | 1977 | 1978 | 1979 | 1980 | 1981 | 1982 | 1983 | 1984 | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 |
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| Vuelta a España
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— | — | 5 | 6 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 5 | — | — | — | — | — |
 Giro d'Italia
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16 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 22 | 44 | — |
| Tour de France
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— | — | 11 | DNF | 2 | DNF | 4 | 2 | 30 | 9 | DNF | 56 | DNF | — | — | 95 |
DNF = Did Not Finish
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^"Hennie Kuiper Olympic Results".sports-reference.com.Archived fromthe originalon 25 October 2014.Retrieved25 October2014.
External links
[edit]- Hennie Kuiperat Cycling Archives
- Hennie Kuiperat ProCyclingStats
- Hennie Kuiperat CycleBase
- Hennie KuiperatOlympedia
- Official homepage of Hennie Kuiper
- Official Flickr homepage of Hennie Kuiper
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| National | |
- 1949 births
- Living people
- People from Denekamp
- Dutch male cyclists
- Dutch Tour de France stage winners
- UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
- Cyclists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Dutch Vuelta a España stage winners
- Tour de Suisse stage winners
- Knights of the Order of Orange-Nassau
- Medalists at the 1972 Summer Olympics
- UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
- Cyclists from Overijssel