Joop Stakenburg

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Joop Stakenburg (l.) After winning the 1970 World Cup with Cees Stam (r.)

Joop Stakenburg , also John , (born January 21, 1928 in Amsterdam , † October 20, 1989 in Ansbach ) was a Dutch cyclist and pacemaker .

Joop Stakenburg was a professional from 1951 to 1963. The greatest success he known at that time was third place at the Dutch Standing Championships. In the “Kraantje Lek” team he drove numerous road races with Jan Derksen, among others . He also used the first name "John" because he found it more international than "Joop".

Stakenburg had greater success as a pacemaker. In 1970 he led his compatriot Cees Stam to his first stayer world championship, still as an amateur . In 1973 and 1974, the two won the standing world championship for professionals together.

On February 2, 1978, Nico Been set an hourly world record behind Stakenburg in the Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion in Vienna with 74.272 kilometers . In 1986 Stakenburg led Fred Rompelberg to two new records on the Olympic cycling track in Moscow : over 100 kilometers behind the engine (1: 13.55 hours) and the world hour record (81 kilometers). Rompelberg thus improved his two own records from 1982.

In 1989 Stakenburg was killed in an accident on a motorway in Germany on the way to a bike race. His pacemaker was on the trailer.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Jacobs, Hector Mahau, Harry Van Den Bremt, René Pirotte: Velo Gotha . Editions Presses de Belgique, Brussels 1984, OCLC 64116466 , p. 720 (Dutch).
  2. ↑ Wielersport.slogblog.nl

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SURNAME Stakenburg, Joop
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Stakenburg, John
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH January 21, 1928
PLACE OF BIRTH Amsterdam
DATE OF DEATH October 20, 1989
Place of death Ansbach