Monique Knol

Monique Knol (right), with Bart de Graaff

Monique Knol (born March 31, 1964 in Wolvega ) is a former Dutch cyclist and trainer.

Cycling career

Monique Knol had her breakthrough in 1986 when she became Dutch sprint champion , and the following year she was runner-up again. In 1988 she won the national title on the road and then focused on road racing. At the Texas Tour in the same year she was third in the overall classification.

Surprisingly, Monique Knol won the women's road race at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul ; this race was also counted as a world championship. This victory was also made possible for her because the favorite Jeannie Longo had focused on preventing her American rival Inga Benedict from winning, and her tactics had cleared the way for the Dutchwoman. Four years later, at the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona, ​​Knol won bronze.

In 1990 Monique Knol won the world championship title in Utsunomiya, Japan, together with Leontien Zijlaard-van Moorsel , Astrid Schop and Cora Westland in the 50 km team race , and the following year she was with the Dutch team at the UCI road world championships in 1991 in Stuttgart Vice world champion.

Monique Knol won twelve stages of the Tour Cycliste Féminin and won the Swedish road race Tygrikescupen four times . In 1991 she won Rund um den Henninger Turm . In 1996 she retired from cycling, followed by a brief comeback in 2002.

Professional

Knol was the coach of the Dutch women's junior cycling team for a while. Today the trained teacher is active in dressage riding .

Web links

• Monique Knol in the database of Radsportseiten.net
• Monique Knol in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Sportsillustrated.CNN.com ( Memento from December 2, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) (English)
2. ↑ Volker Kluge : Olympic Summer Games. Chronicle IV. Seoul 1988 - Atlanta 1996. Sportverlag Berlin, Berlin 2002, ISBN 3-328-00830-6 , p. 295.