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1997 Hel Van Het Mergelland
The 1997 Hel van het Mergelland was the 25th edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 5 April 1997. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Raymond Meijs. General classification References 1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ... 1997 in road cycling 1997 in Dutch sport {{cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Meijs
Raymond Meijs (born 13 March 1968) is a Dutch former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 1992 to 2001. He notably won the Hel van het Mergelland a record four times in his career, as well as the UCI Junior World Road Race Championships in 1985. Major results ;1985 : 1st Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships : 1st Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;1986 : 2nd Road race, National Junior Road Championships ;1988 : 1st Drielandenomloop : 3rd Ronde van Overijssel : 4th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge ;1989 : 2nd Overall Tour de Liège ::1st Stage 1 : 2nd Drielandenomloop ;1990 : 1st Hel van het Mergelland : 1st Stage 2 Étoile du Brabant : 2nd Grand Prix de Waregem : 3rd Overall Tour de Liège ::1st Stage 2 ;1991 : 1st Overall Tour de Liège ::1st Stage 2a : 1st Stage 7 Niedersachsen Rundfahrt : 3rd Road race, National Amateur Road Championships : 10th Grand Prix d'Isbergues ;1993 : 2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie : 4th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens ;1994 : ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Talen
John Talen (born 18 January 1965) is a former road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who was a professional from 1987 to 2000. As an amateur he won the world title in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Rob Harmeling, Tom Cordes and Gerrit de Vries, and finished second in the individual road race. His biggest individual success as a pro was winning Dwars door Vlaanderen (1988) and the Scheldeprijs (1990). Talen rode in three editions of the Tour de France. In the 1994 Tour de France, he was last in the general classification, the lanterne rouge. Major results ;1984 :1st Stage 5 Olympia's Tour ;1985 :1st Overall Olympia's Tour ;1986 :2nd Overall Olympia's Tour ::1st Stage 3 :2nd Gran Premio della Liberazione :3rd Overall Circuit Cycliste Sarthe ::1st Stage 3 ;1987 :4th Omloop Het Volk ;1988 :1st Dwars door Vlaanderen :1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami :3rd Omloop Het Volk :6th Overall Ronde van Nederland :6th Overall KBC Driedaagse van De Panne-Koksijde :9th Overall Étoi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Van Den Akker
John van den Akker (born 30 May 1966, in Veldhoven) is a Dutch former cyclist, who was professional from 1988 to 1997. Career achievements Major results ;1986 : 1st Ronde van Midden-Nederland ;1987 : 1st Stage 3 Olympia's Tour ;1988 : 7th Brussels–Ingooigem ;1989 : 3rd Scheldeprijs : 5th Grand Prix de la Libération ( TTT) : 7th Circuit des Frontières ;1990 : 1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Murcia : 1st Stage 5 Étoile de Bessèges : 3rd Paris–Camembert : 10th Overall Tour of Sweden ;1991 : 3rd GP Rik Van Steenbergen ;1992 : 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg : 7th Grand Prix d'Isbergues : 9th Overall Étoile de Bessèges ;1994 : 9th Grand Prix d'Isbergues ;1995 : 8th Binche–Tournai–Binche ;1997 : 2nd Overall Olympia's Tour ::1st Stage 4 : 9th Overall Tour of Sweden ;1998 : 1st Stage 6 Olympia's Tour : 4th Hel van het Mergelland Volta Limburg Classic is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in late March or early April in Limburg, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1996 Hel Van Het Mergelland
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1998 Hel Van Het Mergelland
The 1998 Hel van het Mergelland was the 26th edition of the Volta Limburg Classic cycle race and was held on 4 April 1998. The race started and finished in Eijsden. The race was won by Raymond Meijs. General classification References 1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently s ... 1998 in road cycling 1998 in Dutch sport {{cycling-race-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Volta Limburg Classic
Volta Limburg Classic is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in late March or early April in Limburg, Netherlands. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 2005 by the Union Cycliste Internationale (UCI) to expand cycling around the world. The five circuits (representing the continents of Africa, the .... Prior to 2012, the race was known as Hel van het Mergelland. Winners Men's race Source: Women's race References External links * Cycle races in the Netherlands UCI Europe Tour races Recurring sporting events established in 1973 1973 establishments in the Netherlands Cycling in Limburg (Netherlands) South Limburg (Netherlands) {{Netherlands-sport-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eijsden
Eijsden (; li, Èèsjde ) is a village situated in the very south of the European country the Netherlands. It is located in the southwestern part of the province of Limburg. Until 1 January 2011, Eijsden was the main village in a municipality with the same name. On that date this municipality merged with the neighbouring one of Margraten, resulting in nowadays Eijsden-Margraten municipality, in which Eijsden again is the biggest place. This village is one of the most southerly places in the Netherlands, for in its south it is extending up to the most southerly part of the border between the Netherlands and Belgium. The Meuse river, coming from France and Belgium, here enters its third and final flowing country, the Netherlands. From here on its name in Dutch is ''Maas''. Running northward to Eijsden's west it locally forms the westerly frontier of the last mentioned country with Belgium. Its Belgian border across the Meuse is Lanaye, a village of Liège Province in Walloni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rik Reinerink
Rik Reinerink (born 21 May 1973) is a Dutch former road cyclist, who competed as a professional from 1999 to 2006. Major results ;1991 : 3rd Overall Giro della Lunigiana : 3rd Trofeo Emilio Paganessi : 4th Road race, UCI Junior Road World Championships ;1992 : 1st Stage 1 Tour of Austria ;1994 : 2nd Ronde van Drenthe : 3rd Ronde van Limburg ;1995 : 3rd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships ;1996 : 1st Round van Zuid-Holland : 1st Stage 10 Olympia's Tour ;1997 : 10th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge ;1999 : 1st Ster van Zwolle : 3rd Ronde van Overijssel : 7th Prix d'Armor, Mi-Août en Bretagne : 9th Overall Olympia's Tour ::1st Stage 2 : 9th Ronde van Drenthe ;2000 : 2nd Ster van Zwolle ;2001 : 5th Brussels–Ingooigem ;2002 : 1st Stage 6 Ster Elektrotoer : 3rd GP Aarhus : 4th Ronde van Drenthe : 4th Le Samyn ;2003 : 1st Stage 5 Ronde van Nederland : 3rd Overall Ster Elektrotoer ::1st Mountains classification : 3rd GP Stad Vilvoorde : 4th Overall Circuit Franco-Belge : 4 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rik Van Slycke
Rik Van Slycke (2 February 1963) is a former Belgian cyclist. He is now a directeur sportif with the Quick Step cycling team.http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/cy/profiles/1016.html Major results ;1989 :1st Nokere Koerse ;1992 :10th Stage 20 Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consist ... ;1993 :9th Trofeo Laigueglia References Directeur sportifs Living people 1963 births Belgian male cyclists Sportspeople from Ghent Cyclists from East Flanders {{Belgium-cycling-bio-1960s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niels Van De Steen
Niels is a male given name, equivalent to Nicholas, which is common in Denmark, Belgium, Norway (formerly) and the Netherlands. The Norwegian and Swedish variant is Nils. The name is a developed short form of Nicholas or Greek Nicolaos after Saint Nicholas. Its pet form is Nisse, and female variants are Nielsine, Nielsina, and Nielsa. Niels may refer to: People *Niels, King of Denmark (1065–1134) *Niels, Count of Halland (died 1218) *Niels Aagaard (1612–1657), Danish poet *Niels Aall (1769–1854), Norwegian businessman and politician *Niels Henrik Abel (1802–1829), Norwegian mathematician *Niels Arestrup (born 1949), French actor *Niels Viggo Bentzon (1919–2000), Danish composer and pianist *Niels Bohr (1885–1962), Danish physicist and Nobel Prize recipient *Niels Busk (born 1942), Danish politician *Niels Ebbesen (died 1340), Danish squire and national hero *Niels Feijen (born 1977), Dutch pool player *Niels Ferguson (born 1965), Dutch cryptographer *Niels Friis (die ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bram De Groot
Bram de Groot (born on 18 December 1974, in Alkmaar) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer who last rode for UCI ProTour team . Major results * Uniqa Classic - Overall (2005) * Delta Ronde van Midden-Zeeland (2005) * Volta a Catalunya - 1 stage (2003) * Tour Méditerranéen - 1 stage (2003) * Circuito Montañés Circuito Montañés is a road cycling stage race held annually in Cantabria Cantabria (, also , , Cantabrian: ) is an autonomous community in northern Spain with Santander as its capital city. It is called a ''comunidad histórica'', a histor ... - 1 stage (1999) External links * * 1974 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Sportspeople from Alkmaar UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists from North Holland {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1970s-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Wuyts
Peter Wuyts (born 24 February 1973) is a Belgian former racing cyclist. He rode in the 1999 Tour de France. Major results ;1994 : 4th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens ;1997 : 1st Overall Tour de la province de Namur ::1st Stage 2 : 7th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens ;1998 : 1st Stage 4 Ronde van Nederland : 6th Overall Tour de l'Avenir ::1st Points classification ::1st Stage 2 : 9th Overall Circuito Montañes : 10th Overall Tour de la Region Wallonne ;2002 : 8th Hel van het Mergelland ;2004 : 2nd Schaal Sels : 8th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens Grote Prijs Jef Scherens is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in September in Leuven, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. The race is named after the seven-time professional sprint world c ... : 10th Veenendaal–Veenendaal ;2005 : 1st De Drie Zustersteden References External links * 1973 births Living people Belgian male cyclists Sportspeople from Turnhout Cyclists from Antwerp ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
