Wim Van Est
Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- 3 Individual Stages
- 1 Team Time Trial
- Giro d'Italia
- 1 Individual Stage
Stage Races
- Ronde van Nederland (1952, 1954)
Single-Day Races and Classics
- Dutch Road Race Champion ::(1956, 1957)
- Dutch Individual Pursuit Champion
- (1949, 1952, 1953, 1955)
- Ronde van Vlaanderen (1953)
- Bordeaux–Paris (1950, 1952, 1961)
Competitor for Netherlands | ||
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Track cycling | ||
World Championships | ||
Bronze | 1949 Copenhagen | Individual pursuit |
Silver | 1950 Rocourt | Individual pursuit |
Bronze | 1955 Milan | Individual pursuit |
4 March 2012
Willem van Est (25 March 1923 – 1 May 2003) was a Dutch racing cyclist.
He is best known for being the first Dutch cyclist to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France of 1951, and for falling into a ravine while wearing it.
Famous quotes containing the word van:
“To be is to be the value of a variable.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)