Hennie Kuiper

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)
Medal record
Competitor for the Netherlands
Road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
Gold 1972 Munich Individual road race
World Championships
Gold 1975 Yvoir Professional road race
Infobox last updated on
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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