Nico Been

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Nico Been Road cycling
To person
Full name Niclaas Been
Date of birth December 17, 1945
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Track cycling, road cycling
Team (s)
Rufa Sport
Beck’s beer, the
Franken
furniture giant
Most important successes
National track championships
1975: Dutch champion in the standing race

Niclaas "Nico" Been (born December 17, 1945 in Groningen ) is a former Dutch cyclist .

In 1973 Nico Been finished third in the Dutch championship in the standing race , and the following year he was second. In 1975 he won the title, and at the World Track Championships in Rocourt that year he was fifth. 1978 and 1979 was again third in this discipline at national championships. On February 2, 1978, Been set a world record for the hour behind pacemaker Joop Stakenburg at the Ferry-Dusika-Hallenstadion in Vienna with 74.272 kilometers .

After finishing his cycling career, Nico Been lived temporarily on Lake Garda and rented holiday apartments.

Web links

  • Nico Been in the Radsportseiten.net database
  • Nico Been (1945). wielrennen.blog.nl, December 17, 2005, accessed on January 8, 2014 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ René Jacobs, Hector Mahau, Harry Van Den Bremt, René Pirotte: Velo Gotha . Editions Presses de Belgique, Brussels 1984, OCLC 901603882 , p. 720 .
  2. ^ Residenze Due Laghi. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on January 8, 2014 ; accessed on January 8, 2014 . 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.duelaghi.altervista.org
personal data
SURNAME Been, Nico
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Been, Niclaas (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH December 17, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Groningen