Hennie Kuiper
Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- 5 individual stages
- Vuelta a España
- 2 Stages
Stage Races
- Tour of Britain (1972)
- Tour de Suisse (1976)
Single-Day Races and Classics
- World Road Race Champion (1975)
- Dutch Road Race Championship (1975)
- Giro di Lombardia (1981)
- Milan – San Remo (1985)
- Paris–Roubaix (1983)
- Ronde van Vlaanderen (1981)
Competitor for the Netherlands | ||
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Road bicycle racing | ||
Olympic Games | ||
Gold | 1972 Munich | Individual road race |
World Championships | ||
Gold | 1975 Yvoir | Professional road race |
July 16, 2008
Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic road race at Munich in 1972, becoming world professional road race champion in 1975, as well as winning four of the five “Monument” classics. He rode the Tour de France 12 times, finishing second twice and winning the stage to Alpe d'Huez on two occasions. Kuiper, Ercole Baldini and Paolo Bettini are the only riders to have won both the Olympic road race and the world professional road race.
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