Jan Derksen (cyclist)

Jan Derksen

Jan Derksen as Dutch sprint champion (1960)
To person
Full name	Johannes Wilhelmus Derksen
Date of birth	January 23, 1919
date of death	May 22, 2011
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Train (short term)
End of career	1964
Societies)
	ASV Olympia
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1946, 1957 - sprint (amateurs) 1939 - sprint (amateurs)
Team (s) as coach
	National rail team Netherlands
Last updated: February 28, 2019

Derksen beats Antonio Maspes at the 1957 World Cup

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Film about track races with Jan Derksen, Arie van Vliet and Jef van de Vijver

Derksen (r.) As trainer in conversation with Gert Bongers
and Piet de Wit (1967)

Johannes Wilhelmus "Jan" Derksen (born January 23, 1919 in Geertruidenberg ; † May 22, 2011 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch track cyclist and cycling manager.

Athletic career

At the age of 16, Derksen won 15 winning ribbons as a newcomer, 32 in 1936 and 44 in 1937. Shortly before and after the Second World War, Jan Derksen was one of the railroad sprinters' elite . In 1939 he was amateur world champion and in 1946 and 1957 world champion among professionals. Twice, in 1950 and 1958, Derksen won the sprint classic Grand Prix de Paris . Of the Grand Prix competitions that were popular at the time, he won almost all major tournaments at least once. a. those of Aarhus, Copenhagen, Odense, Berlin, Dortmund, Antwerp, Amsterdam, Brussels, Ghent and Zurich. His attempt to stand together with the Italian Antonio Maspes on the Vigorelli track in Milan during the Track Cycling World Championships in 1955, which lasted 32 minutes and 20 seconds and was finally canceled by the referees, is legendary .

Derksen was active as a professional cyclist from 1940 to 1963; He drove his last race at the age of 44 in August 1963 in the Olympic Stadium in Amsterdam .

Trainer

He followed Arie van Vliet as the national railway coach of the Netherlands. He then worked as a manager and trainer. He was in charge of Tiemen Groen and Leijn Loevesijn , among others .

Honors

To honor Derksen, who himself won 28 big prizes, the Grand Prix Jan Derksen for sprinters was organized as part of the Amsterdam six-day race .

Jan Derksen died after a long illness at the age of 92.

successes

1938

• Amateur World Championship - Sprint

1939

• Amateur world champion - sprint
• Grand Prix de Paris (amateurs)

1943

• Dutch champion - sprint

1946

• World Champion - Sprint

1949

• World Championship - Sprint
• Dutch champion - sprint

1950

• World Championship - Sprint
• Grand Prix de Paris (amateurs)

1952

• World Championship - Sprint
• Dutch champion - sprint

1953

• Dutch champion - sprint

1954

• Dutch champion - sprint

1955

• Dutch champion - sprint

1957

• World Champion - Sprint
• Dutch champion - sprint

1958

• Grand Prix de Paris
• Dutch champion - sprint

1959

• World Championship - Sprint
• Dutch champion - sprint

1960

• Dutch champion - sprint

1961

• Dutch champion - sprint

1962

• Dutch champion - sprint

1963

• Dutch champion - sprint

Fonts

• Met tape dictations . With a foreword by Toon Hermans . Avanti, The Hague 1961.

Web links

Commons : Jan Derksen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Jan Derksen in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Derksen, Met Banddikte , p. 9.
2. ↑ ^{a b} Met tape dictations . Avanti, The Hague 1961, pp. 136, 139 .
3. ↑ Hele Leven van Derksen in teken baan race. In: trouw.nl. Retrieved March 1, 2019 (Dutch). 
4. ↑ Fred van Slogteren: De wielerhelden van Oranje , Nieuwegein 2003, p. 71
5. Jump up ↑ Jan Derksen (92). In: telegraaf.nl. May 22, 2011, accessed May 25, 2016 (Dutch).