Erik Breukink
Erik Christiaan Breukink (born April 1, 1964 in Rheden , Netherlands ) is a former Dutch professional cyclist .
Career
In 1982 Erik Breukink was the Dutch junior champion in the single pursuit on the track . In 1984 he won a half stage of the Olympia's Tour , the following year a prologue and another stage. In 1985 he started for the national team in the International Peace Tour , but retired from the race. A year later he started in the Tour de Suisse and won a stage and the mountain classification. In 1987 he won a stage of the Tour de France and one at the Giro d'Italia , where he also wore the leader's Maglia Rosa for two days . The following year he won the junior ranking ofTour de France .
Breuking took part in the Tour de France eleven times ; he achieved his best overall ranking in 1990 when he was third overall. In addition, he won stage wins in all three Grand Tour de France, Vuelta a España , Giro d'Italia , a short difficult stage in the latter in 1987 in San Romolo and a year later in Bormio a legendary stage in snow and cold over the Gavia Pass in which he beat the eventual overall winner Andrew Hampsten . In the overall ranking he was third that year, second the following year and fourth in 1989 . In total, he achieved 64 victories over the course of his career.
After Breukink worked for several years as a co-commentator for the Dutch TV station NOS and a columnist for the Algemeen Dagblad , from 2004 he was the sporting director of the Dutch cycling team Rabobank . He has been working in the same position for the Roompot Oranje Peloton team since 2014 .
The stage race Grand Prix Erik Breukink , which took place in 2002 and 2003, was named after him.
family
Erik Breukink comes from a family that has many connections to cycling and cycling: his grandfather was Jan Breukink, a nephew of the founder of Gazelle Wilhelm Kölling, who was also director of the company until 1958, along with other family members. He was followed in the management of the company by his son Wim Breukink , who was also involved in cycling, for example as the sports director of the Tour of Holland . At one of the events in which his son Erik started it began to rain and the drivers, including Breukink, took shelter under a bridge. Willem Breukink, otherwise known to be extremely calm, saw this when he drove past in an escort vehicle and angrily shouted to his son: "Een real Breukink rijdt ook door de regen." ("A real Breukink also drives through the rain.")
successes
- 1986
- a stage and mountain classification Tour de Suisse
- 1987
- a stage Tour de France
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- 1988
- a stage of the Giro d'Italia
- Overall ranking and one stage Critérium International
- Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour of the Basque Country
- Tour de France junior competition
- 1989
- a stage Tour de France
- two stages Tour de Romandie
- one stage tour of Catalonia
- 1990
- two stages Tour de France
- one stage Tour de Suisse
- Overall ranking and a stage Tour of Ireland
- World Cup Finals Individual Time Trial
- one stage tour of Catalonia
- one stage tour of the Asturias
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- 1991
- Overall ranking and two stages of the Tour DuPont
- one stage tour of the Asturias
- a stage Tirreno – Adriatico
- GP Eddy Merckx
- 1992
- a stage Vuelta a España
- 1993
- Overall ranking and one stage Critérium International
- Overall ranking and a stage tour of the Netherlands
- Overall ranking and one stage of the Tour of Asturias
- Dutch champion - road race
- one stage tour of Valencia
- 1995
- 1997
Grand Tour placements
Grand Tour | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
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Giro d'Italia | 3 | 2 | 4th | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Tour de France | 21st | 12 | WD | 3 | WD | 7th | WD | 29 | 20th | 34 | 52 |
Vuelta a España | - | - | - | - | - | - | 7th | - | - | - | - |
Teams
- 1985 Scale - Gazelle
- 1986 Panasonic (from 1987 to 1989 Panasonic-Isostar )
- 1990–1992 PDM videocassettes - Concorde
- 1993-1995 ONCE
- 1996-1997 Rabobank
Web links
- Erik Breukink in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Erik Breukink in the ProCyclingStats.com database
- Erik Breukink in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Erik Breukink in the Tour de France database(French / English )
Individual evidence
- ↑ Maik Märtin: 50 years of Course de la Paix . Agency Construct, Leipzig 1998, p. 231 .
- ↑ Christoph Fisch: When strong men wept. In: Neue Zürcher Zeitung . May 24, 2013, accessed December 26, 2015 .
- ↑ a b Erik Breukink as spreker boeken bij SportsSpeakers.nl - SportsSpeakers. In: sportsspeakers.nl. July 12, 2010, accessed December 26, 2015 (Dutch).
- ↑ Willem Breukink, een van beacons rust in het keiharde peloton. In: trouw.nl. Retrieved June 9, 2016 (Dutch).
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Breukink, Erik |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Breukink, Erik Christiaan |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cyclist |
DATE OF BIRTH | April 1, 1964 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Rheden , Netherlands |