Kees Witteveen

Kees Witteveen

Kees Witteveen with his trainer P.W. Scheltema Beduin (1895)
To person
Date of birth	February 14, 1871
date of death	March 23, 1927
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Train (endurance)
Most important successes
Track cycling world championships 1895 - Standing race (amateurs)
Last updated: January 2, 2017

Kees Witteveen , also Cees Witteveen , (born February 14, 1871 in Leeuwarden , † 1927 in Amsterdam ) was a Dutch cyclist.

In 1891 Kees Witteveen was the Dutch runner-up in road racing; He repeated this success in 1894 and 1895. In 1893 he finished second behind Jaap Eden in the Rotterdam-Utrecht-Rotterdam race . The following year he won the Groningen – Leeuwarden – Groningen race .

In 1895 Witteveen achieved the greatest success of his career when he was runner-up in the amateur stand -up world championship at the track cycling world championships in Cologne , behind his compatriot Mathieu Cordang and ahead of the Norwegian Wilhelm Henie . In the same year Witteveen started in the 592 kilometer long Bordeaux – Paris race and finished fourth among the amateurs with 27 hours, 47 minutes and 8 seconds .

Web links

Commons : Kees Witteveen  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Kees Witteveen in the Radsportseiten.net database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ PW Scheltema Beduin introduceerde de luchtband in Nederland. (No longer available online.) In: sportgeschiedenis.nl. June 28, 2015, archived from the original on January 1, 2017 ; Retrieved January 1, 2017 (Dutch). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.