Aad van den Hoek (born 14 October 1951) is a former Dutch

cyclist Cycling, also known as bicycling or biking, is the activity of riding a bicycle or other types of pedal-driven human-powered vehicles such as balance bikes, unicycles, tricycles, and quadricycles. Cycling is practised around the world fo ...

. He was professional between 1974 and 1983 and was good friends with

Gerrie Knetemann Gerard Friedrich Knetemann (6 March 1951 – 2 November 2004) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980. A four-ti ...

. Together they won four Tour de France team time trial stages with their team TI-Raleigh. In 1976 he finished last in the general classification of the

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and carried the

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Biography

In 1971 Van den Hoek won silver at the

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, in the team time trial, with team mates

Fedor den Hertog Fedor Iwan den Hertog (20 April 194612 February 2011) was a Dutch racing cyclist. His sporting career began with De IJsselstreek Wezep. He won the Olympic 100 km team time trial in 1968 with Joop Zoetemelk, René Pijnen and Jan Krekels. ...

, Adri Duyker and Frits Schür. In 1972 he finished third in the 100 km team time trial at the Munich Olympics. 25 Kilometers in the race, the Dutch had a lead of six seconds. After 40 km, a spoke snapped in Van den Hoek's back wheel, and

Hennie Kuiper 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 bicycle racing, road race at 1972 Summer Olympics, Munich in 1972, becoming world ...

Cees Priem Cees Priem (born 27 October 1950) is a retired Dutch professional road bicycle racer. After his cycling career, Priem became team manager of TVM. He competed in the individual road race and team time trial events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. ...

and

went on without him. At the finish line they were only a minute and ten seconds behind. After the race Van den Hoek tested positive for Coramine, a drug allowed by the

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but not the

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. The whole Dutch team was disqualified. Van den Hoek rode nine seasons for team TI-Raleigh, which was famous for its success in team time trials. Together with the team he won four TTTs in the Tour de Frances of

1976 Events January * January 2 – The International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights enters into force. * January 5 – The Pol Pot regime proclaims a new constitution for Democratic Kampuchea. * January 18 – Full diplomatic ...

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

and

1981 Events January * January 1 ** Greece enters the European Economic Community, predecessor of the European Union. ** Palau becomes a self-governing territory. * January 6 – A funeral service is held in West Germany for Nazi Grand Admiral ...

(twice). He ended those Tours in 87th and last, 57th and 115th place. In 1977 he was one of a group of 30 riders that were sent home after finishing beyond the time limit in the toughest mountain stage

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. Among those riders were points classification second

Rik van Linden Rik Van Linden (born 28 July 1949 in Wilrijk, Antwerp) is a Belgian former road bicycle racer. He won the points classification in the 1975 Tour de France, ahead of Eddy Merckx. Van Linden also won several stages in all of the three Grand ...

, stage winners

Klaus-Peter Thaler Klaus-Peter Thaler (born 14 May 1949 in Eckmannshausen, North Rhine-Westphalia) is a former professional cyclist whose career spanned from 1976 to 1988, he was successful in road-racing and cyclo-cross. He was world cyclo-cross champion twice ...

and

Patrick Sercu Patrick Sercu (27 June 1944 – 19 April 2019) was a Belgian cyclist who was active on the road and track between 1961 and 1983. On track, he won the gold medal in the 1 km time trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, as well as three world title ...

, and his team mates

Piet van Katwijk Pieter Gerardus van Katwijk (27 February 1950 – 24 February 2025) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1969 and 1983. He competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics and finished in eleventh place in the road race. He won the Milk Race (1973) an ...

and Bill Nickson. EN: Thirty riders send home

Major results

;1971 :2nd Silver medal uci

TTT ;1972 :

Ronde van Midden-Nederland The Ronde van Midden-Nederland is a road bicycle race held annually in Netherlands. It was organized as a 1.2 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing competitions which were introduced in 20 ...

Ronde van Gelderland The Ronde van Gelderland () was an elite List of women's road bicycle races, women's road bicycle race held in the Netherlands between 2003 and 2016. It was rated by the Union Cycliste Internationale, UCI as a 1.2 category race, and was primarily ...

:stage 1

Rund um Düren The Rund um Düren is a cycling road race held in mid-April in Germany. The event, ranked at 1.2 on the UCI European calendar, is contested around the city of Düren Düren (; Ripuarian language, Ripuarian: Düre) is a town in North Rhine-West ...

:stage 8

Tour of Austria The Tour of Austria () is a stage race, stage cycling race held in Austria. From 1949 to 1995 it was a race for amateur cyclists, turning into a professional event in 1996. In 2005 and 2006 it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour ...

;1973 :2 stages (TTT/individually), points classification, 2nd overall

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, wi ...

:2 stages (TTT/individually)

Milk Race The Tour of Britain is a multi-stage cycling race, conducted on British roads, in which participants race across Great Britain to complete the race in the fastest time. The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after th ...

;1974 :

Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt The International Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt was a stage race, multi-stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race held in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. In the years from 1966 to 2007, it was considered one of the biggest sporting events in Rhine ...

:1 stage, points classification, 3rd overall

;1975 :

Étoile des Espoirs The Étoile des Espoirs was an end of the season French cycling stage race A race stage, leg, or heat is a unit of a racing, race that has been divided in several parts for the reason such as length of the distance to be covered, as in a multi-d ...

;1976 :stage 5a TTT

with TI-Raleigh :

Acht van Chaam Acht van Chaam () is an elite men's and women's professional road bicycle racing event held annually in Chaam, Netherlands. The first edition was in 1932 and since 1992 the event also includes a women's race. Results Men Source: Women ...

:2nd

Dutch National Road Race Championships The Dutch National Road Race Championships take place annually, on the weekend prior to the start of the Tour de France. First held in 1888, today it is organized by the Top Sports Group, commissioned by the Royal Dutch Cycling Union, KNWU. Men ...

;1977 :7th stage Part B Route du Sol ;1978 :stage 4 TTT

with TI-Raleigh :1st leg Part B

Tour of the Netherlands The Tour of the Netherlands ''(Dutch: Ronde van Nederland)'' was a road bicycle racing stage-race in the Netherlands, founded in 1948. It was an annual race since 1975. Because of the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was replaced by the En ...

;1979 :stage 1

Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important Race stage, multi-stage road bicycle racing, road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but fro ...

;1981 :stages 1b and 4 TTTs

with TI-Raleigh :stage 2b

Volta a Catalunya The Volta a Catalunya (; Tour of Catalonia, ) is a road bicycle race held annually in Catalonia, Spain. It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of the Basque Country. The race has had ...

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Biography

Major results

See also

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