John Stol
John Stol (born April 19, 1885 in Amsterdam ; † July 26, 1973 there ) was a Dutch cyclist . He was the first Dutchman to win a six-day race.
Stol did not learn to ride a bike until he was 17, but quickly buried his dream of becoming an architect and became a professional racing driver. He lived and trained most of the time in Berlin . He started in a total of 19 six-day races; In 1907 he won for the first time together with Walter Rütt in New York . As early as 1904, he and the Belgian Arthur Vanderstuyft took second place there. The victory in New York was followed by four more victories in six-day races with Rütt in Berlin and Frankfurt .
The delicate Stol, called the "flying Amsterdammer" continued in other disciplines: His career as a stayer but he finished in 1909 at the request of his parents after a serious accident at the Velodrome Botanical Garden in Berlin. From 1913 to 1918 he was Dutch Champion of professional - Sprinter . As such, he was among the main breadwinners on German railways for many years. In 1904 he also set a tandem world record with the German Thaddäus Robl over 20 km behind the engine.
Stol, who was extremely popular in his active time as a racing driver, lost a lot of sympathy as a functionary of the Dutch Cyclists' Association after the end of his active career because he behaved high-handed.
Web links
- John Stol in the Radsportseiten.net database
- John Stol on cycling4fans.de
Individual evidence
1897, 1898, 1899, 1900, 1902 Harrie Meyers | 1901, 1907, 1910 Guus Schilling | 1903 Jan van de Tuyn | 1904 Jan van Gent | 1906, 1908 JE Fokkinga | 1909, 1912, 1915 Jan Tulleken | 1910 Henk Tamse | 1911 Aria Bouma | 1913, 1914, 1918 John Stol | 1916 Louis François Didier | 1917, 1920–1923, 1927, 1929–1932 Piet Moeskops | 1919, 1926, 1928, 1933 Gerard Leene | 1924 Klaas van Nek | 1925 Piet van Kempen | 1934–1936 Jacobus van Egmond | 1937–1942, 1945–1948, 1950, 1951, 1956 Arie van Vliet | 1943, 1949, 1952–1955, 1957–1963 Jan Derksen | 1964, 1965 Joop Captein | 1966, 1967 Frans Mahn | 1968, 1969 Gerard Koel | 1970–1976 Leijn Loevesijn | 1977 Jan Huisjes | 1978 Jan de Jong | 1980 Theo Smit | 1994 Dirk Jan van Hameren | 1995 Jurgen Denekamp | 1996, 1997 Rene Vink | 1998, 1999 Martin Benjamin | 2001, 2005, 2008, 2009, 2011 Teun Mulder | 2002–2004, 2006, 2007, 2015 Theo Bos | 2010 Roy van den Berg | 2012, 2014, 2017, 2018, 2019 Matthijs Büchli | 2013 Hugo Haak | 2016 Jeffrey Hoogland
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|---|---|
| SURNAME | Stol, John |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | April 19, 1885 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Amsterdam |
| DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1973 |
| Place of death | Amsterdam |