Jan Jansen (cyclist)

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Jan Jansen Road cycling
Jan Jansen (1970)
Jan Jansen (1970)
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Date of birth February 26, 1945
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Track cycling
Most important successes
Olympic games
1968 : 1968 in tandem race (with Leijn Loevesijn )silver
Last updated: September 13, 2014

Johannes Hendrikus "Jan" Jansen (born February 26, 1945 in Basdorf , Germany ) is a former Dutch track cyclist .

In 1964 Jan Jansen was the Dutch junior sprint champion , and the following year he won the amateur title . In 1968, 1970 and 1971 he was national champion in tandem races , in 1968 together with Leijn Loevesijn , in 1970 and 1971 with Peter van Doorn .

In 1968 Jansen started together with Loevesijn at the Summer Olympics in Mexico . The duo won the silver medal on the tandem, in the sprint it was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the eventual winner of the silver medal, the Italian Giordano Turrini . His brother Harrie finished 24th in the road race . In 1967 he received a penalty from the Dutch Association for the use of doping substances and was removed from the list for the UCI Track World Championship .

After finishing his cycling career, Jan Jansen trained as a dental technician and still runs his own laboratory in Heiloo today (as of 2014) .

Jan Jansen should not be confused with the winner of the 1968 Tour de France , Jan Janssen .

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Individual evidence

  1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 33/1967 . Deutscher Sportverlag Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1967, p. 6 .
  2. ↑ De Praktijk. janjansenheiloo.nl, accessed on September 14, 2014 (Dutch).
personal data
SURNAME Jansen, Jan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jansen, Johannes Hendrikus (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch track cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH February 26, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Basdorf , Germany