Nicolaas ("Nico") Cornelis Maria Verhoeven (born 2 October 1961 in
Berkel-Enschot
Berkel-Enschot is a Dutch village, located in the municipality of Tilburg in the North Brabant province which borders Belgium.
Geography
Berkel-Enschot is located between Tilburg and Oisterwijk. Surrounding towns and hamlets are Brem, Heikant, He ...
,
North Brabant
North Brabant ( ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, Dutch Brabant or Hollandic Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to ...
) is a Dutch retired
road bicycle racer
Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most com ...
, who was a professional rider from 1985 to 1995. He represented his native country at the
1984 Summer Olympics
The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and commonly known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the ...
in Los Angeles, in the
individual road race where he didn't finish the race.
Verhoeven won the first stage in the
1987 Tour de France.
Major results
;1984
: National Amateur Road Race Championship
;1985
:Anderlecht
:Bodegraven
:Nieuw-Amsterdam
:Profronde van Pijnacker
:Zes van Rijn & Gouwe
;1986
:Ulvenhout
;1987
:Tiel
:
Tour de France
The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race held primarily in France. It is the oldest and most prestigious of the three Grand Tour (cycling), Grand Tours, which include the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a ...
:
::Winner stage 1
:
Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem
Egmont Cycling Race is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Zottegem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour.
The race started out as 'Dokter Tistaertprijs' in 1934. Between 1971 ...
;1988
:Tilburg
;1989
:Made
;1990
:Houtem
;1991
:Mijl van Mares
;1992
:
Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen
:Kelmis
;1995
:Mijl van Mares
:Boxmeer
See also
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List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who competed at the Summer Olympics. As of 2012 events in four cycling disciplines (BMX, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling) have been contested at the Summer Olympics. Dutch cyclist did not co ...
References
External links
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1961 births
Living people
Dutch male cyclists
Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists from Tilburg
Dutch Tour de France stage winners
20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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