Jo de Haan (25 December 1936 – 19 April 2006) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1956 and 1966. After winning four local road races as amateur in 1956 and 1958, he turned professional. His best achievements came in 1960 when he won the

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 m ...

and

Tour de Picardie The Tour de Picardie was a professional multi-stage cycle road race that was held between 1936 and 2016 in Picardy, France. In its last twelve editions, it was organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a se ...

. In 1963 he finished third at the 1963 UCI Road World Championships. In total, he won 36 races during his career. He died of cancer.

Major results

;1958 :1st Stage 3b Olympia's Tour ;1959 :1st GP Flandria :1st Circuit du Cher :1st Stage 7 Tour de l'Ouest :2nd Overall Tour de Champagne ::1st Stages 2 & 3 :3rd Nationale Sluitingprijs - Putte - Kapellen :7th Overall GP du Midi-Libre ;1960 :1st Overall

::1st Stage 1 :1st

:1st Paris-Valenciennes :6th Overall

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 ...

;1961 :1st Stage 2b Roma-Napoli-Roma :1st Stage 5b

Ronde van Nederland The Tour of the Netherlands ''(Dutch: Ronde van Nederland)'' was a road bicycle racing stage-race in the Netherlands, founded in 1948 in sports, 1948. It was an annual race since 1975 in sports, 1975. Because of the start of the Union Cycliste ...

:3rd

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders () may refer to the following cycle races: * Tour of Flanders (men's race) The Tour of Flanders (), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road bicycle racing, road cycling race held in Belgium every spri ...

:4th Bordeaux-Paris :10th Overall Tour du Nord ::1st Stage 4 :10th Milan-San Remo ;1962 :1st Stage 2

Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana The Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana (; or Tour of Valencia) is a road cycling stage race held in the Valencian Community (''Comunitat Valenciana''), Spain. Its position in the cycling calendar means it is often used as preparation for the sprin ...

:1st Stage 2 4 Jours de Dunkerque :1st Stage 3 GP du Midi-Libre :8th

La Flèche Wallonne La Flèche Wallonne (, French for "The Walloon Arrow") is a men's professional cycle road race held in April each year in Wallonia, Belgium. It is part of the UCI World Tour. The first of two Belgian Ardennes classics, La Flèche Wallonne is ...

:9th Bordeaux-Paris ;1963 :3rd Road race,

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and , a UCI Road World Championships ...

:7th Liège-Bastogne-Liège ;1964 :1st Stage 2 4 Jours de Dunkerque :6th Road race,

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* 1936 births 2006 deaths Dutch male cyclists People from Cromstrijen UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists from South Holland 20th-century Dutch sportsmen {{netherlands-cycling-bio-stub