Michel Vaarten
Michel Vaarten (born January 17, 1957 in Turnhout , Antwerp) is a former Belgian cyclist , world champion and current coach.
Life
As an amateur, Michel Vaarten was eight times Belgian champion in various track disciplines sprint , points race , 1 km time trial , derny race and omnium between 1976 and 1979 , thus proving his versatility. In 1976 he also won a silver medal in the 1 km time trial at the Olympic Games in Montreal .
1979 Vaarten went over to the professionals and immediately took third place in the six-day race in Gent (with René Pijnen ); a little later he won in Antwerp (with Pijnen and Albert Fritz ). In the same year he took a third place in the sprint at the UCI track world championships in Amsterdam . In 1980 he and Pijnen became European champions in two-man team driving .
In the years that followed, Vaarten drove good races on the track and on the road. In 1986 he was world champion in Keirin and vice world champion in points race in Colorado Springs . In 1990 he was able to become vice world champion in Keirin at the World Track Championships in Maebashi . Eleven times, more than any other non-Japanese driver, he also took part in the Keirin series in Japan and was very popular there.
Michel Vaarten worked as a trainer for the Belgian Cycling Federation until July 2010. In championships, he also acts as Derny - pacemaker . In 2006 he led the Belgian driver Iljo Keisse in Ballerup / Denmark and in 2009 the Belgian driver Kenny De Ketele to the Derny European Championship in Ghent / Belgium , with whom he repeated this success in 2015 on the Hannover-Wülfel cycle race track .
Vaarten is a son-in-law of the Belgian cycling idol Achiel Buysse .
Individual evidence
- ↑ Imageevent.com
- ↑ Standaard.be: "Bondscoach Vaarten wil drie medailles op EK piste in Gent" accessed on February 24, 2010 (Dutch) nieuwsblad.be: "Baancoach Michel Vaarten ontslagen" accessed on August 17, 2010 (Dutch)
- ↑ Gva.be: "Kenny De Ketele kroont zich tot Europees kampioen derny" queried on February 24, 2010 (Dutch)
Web links
- Michel Vaarten in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Michel Vaarten in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )
1980, 1981 Danny Clark | 1982 Gordon Singleton | 1983, 1985 Urs Freuler | 1984 Robert Dill-Bundi | 1986 Michel Vaarten | 1987 Harumi Honda | 1988, 1989 Claudio Golinelli | 1990, 1991, 1992 Michael Huebner | 1993 Gary Neiwand | 1994, 1996 Marty Nothstein | 1995, 1997, 2000 Frédéric Magné | 1998, 1999 Jens Fiedler | 2001 Ryan Bayley | 2002 Jobie Dajka | 2003 Laurent Gané | 2004 Jamie Staff | 2005 Teun Mulder | 2006 Theo Bos | 2007, 2008, 2010, 2012 Chris Hoy | 2009 Maximilian Levy | 2011 Shane Perkins | 2013 Jason Kenny | 2014, 2015 François Pervis | 2016 Joachim Eilers | 2017 Azizulhasni Awang | 2018 Fabián Puerta | 2019 Matthijs Büchli | 2020 Harrie Lavreysen
2000 Jimmi Madsen / Bruno Walrave | 2001, 2002 Matthew Gilmore / Joop Zijlaard | 2003 Bradley Wiggins / Joop Zijlaard | 2005 Alexei Schmidt / Cordiano Dagnoni | 2006 Iljo Keisse / Michel Vaarten | 2007, 2008 Matthé Pronk / Joop Zijlaard | 2009, 2015 Kenny De Ketele / Michel Vaarten | 2011 Peter Schep / Joop Zijlaard | 2012 Davide Viganò / Cordiano Dagnoni | 2013 Elia Viviani / Christian Dagnoni | 2014 Jesper Mørkøv / René Dupont | 2016 Casper von Folsach / Stinus Roslund | 2017, 2019 Achim Burkart / Christian Ertel | 2018 Nick van der Lijke / René Kos
The Derny European Championships in 2004 and 2010 were canceled for organizational reasons. The European Championships before 2000 were not official events.
1894, 1895 Emile Huet | 1898, 1905–1909 Charles Van Den Born | 1899 Louis Grogna | 1900 Claude Leclercq | 1904 Ernest Massart | 1910 Albert Herent | 1911 Hubert Wilmots | 1912, 1914, 1926 Émile Otto | 1913, 1919, 1920 Jozef Van Bever | 1921 Jules Dossche | 1922–1925, 1927–1929 Alois De Graeve | 1930 Jacques Arlet | 1931–1939, 1941, 1942, 1944–1946 Jef Scherens | 1940 Frans Cools | 1943, 1951–1956 Emile Gosselin | 1948 Frans Van Looveren | 1949, 1950 Raymond Pauwels | 1957–1963, 1966 Jos De Bakker | 1964 Leo Sterckx | 1965, 1967–1969 Patrick Sercu | 1970–1974, 1976 Robert Van Lancker | 1975 Raphael Constant | 1981, 1982 Michel Vaarten | 1993–1995 Erik Schoefs | 1997 Mario Ghyselinck | 1998 Luc De Duytsche | 1999 Wim Van Rengen | 2000-2003 Dimitri De Fauw | 2004 Dominique Perissi | 2012 Kim Van Leemput | 2015 Matthias Oseï Vertez | 2016 Robin Venneman | 2017, 2018 Ayrton De Pauw | 2019 Gerald Nys
The sprint championship was not held continuously.
1882 Eole | 1884 Sweron | 1885–1886 De Beukelaer | 1887 Goethals | 1888–1889 Lhoest | 1890 Choisy | 1911 Jean Patou | 1912 van Oerle | 1913 Fowler | 1914–1918, not held in 1920 | 1919 M. DeWolf | 1921, 1923–1924 Gustave Léonard Daghelinckx | 1922 Jean van den Bosch | 1925–1927 Albert de Brunne | 1928–1930 Yves Van Massenhove | 1931, 1933 Evrard Godefroid | 1932 Thomas | 1934 Heusy | 1935 Antoine | 1936 Clooard | 1937 Hendrickx | 1938–1939 Emile Gosselin | 1940, 1941 Joseph Ceuppens | 1942 Jacques Engelen | 1943 Frans Van Looveren | 1944–1945 F. Marqeunie | 1946–1947 Raymond Pauwels | 1948–1949 Eduard Van de Velde | 1950 Pierre Gosselin | 1951 Gentil Saelent | 1952–1956 Joseph De Bakker | 1957 Arnould Flecy | 1958 Auguste Dechesne | 1959–1960 Leo Sterckx | 1961 Valentin Frennet | 1962–1964 Patrick Sercu | 1965 Roland Van Vlierberghe | 1966, 1969 Fred Helssen | 1967–1968 Robert Van Lancker | 1970–1972 Manuel Snellinckx | 1973 Raphael Constant | 1974 Maurice Petry | 1975 Roger Cuypers | 1976–1978 Michel Vaarten | 1979 Patrick Grootvriendt | 1980–1983 Stefan De Craene | 1984–1985 Frank Orban | 1986 Stephan Wernimont | 1987, 1989–1991 Erik Schoefs | 1988 Thierry Pirard | 1992 Dominique Dejose |
The amateur sprint championship was not held continuously and was held for the last time in 1992.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Vaarten, Michel |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Belgian cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 17th January 1957 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Turnhout , Antwerp Province , Belgium |