Niki Terpstra

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Niki Terpstra Road cycling
Niki Terpstra at the Tour de France 2018
Niki Terpstra at the Tour de France 2018
To person
Date of birth May 18, 1984
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Street
Driver type Classic specialist
To the team
Current team Total Direct Energy
function driver
Most important successes
UCI WorldTour
2014 Paris – Roubaix
2016 Eneco Tour
2018 E3 Harelbeke
2018 Tour of Flanders
UCI Road World Championships
2012, 2013, 2016, 2018 World Champion - team time trial
Last updated: September 23, 2018

Niki Terpstra (born May 18, 1984 in Beverwijk ) is a Dutch cyclist .

Career

Niki Terpstra initially concentrated mainly on track cycling . At the UCI Track World Championships in Los Angeles in 2005 , he won the silver medal in the team pursuit together with Levi Heimans , Jens Mouris and Peter Schep . Overall, Terpstra was eight times Dutch national champion on the track from 2004 to 2007.

After he was on the street u. a. In 2006 he won a stage of the Tour of Belgium in 2006 , and in the 2007 season he received his first contract with a UCI ProTeam , the German team Milram . In his first year, he won the Germany Tour 2007 mountain classification for this team .

At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing , it was supposed to be used in the Dutch four-four. But on the way from the Olympic Village to the Laoshan Velodrome, he had an unfortunate fall after his teammate Robert Slippens had to avoid a car. In the fall, he broke both forearms.

2010 Niki Terpstra was the first Dutch road champion. He was able to repeat this success in 2012 and 2015. In 2011 Terpstra moved to the Belgian team Quick-Step , with whom he became world champion in team time trial in 2012 , 2013 and 2016 . His greatest success to date was winning the classic Paris – Roubaix 2014, which he secured with a solo attack from a leading group of favorites six kilometers from the finish. In 2014 and 2015, Terpstra won the Tour of Qatar .

On the last stage of the Eneco Tour 2014, Terpstra was disqualified because of an elbow hit against Maarten Wijnants and thus lost his seventh place in the overall standings. He then apologized for his behavior.

Terpstra attacked the Oude Kwaremont during the Tour of Flanders 2018

In 2016 Terpstra won the overall ranking of the Eneco Tour and thus his first stage race of the UCI WorldTour . Two years later, after a long solo journey, he won the World Tour one-day race E3 Harelbeke and the Tour of Flanders, his second monument to cycling . This made him the first Dutchman since Adrie van der Poel in 1986 to win the Tour of Flanders.

In 2019 Terpstra moved to the French team Total Direct Énergie . While participating in the Tour of Flanders, Terpstra fell and suffered a severe concussion , so that he was canceled for further races in the spring. On the 11th stage of the 2019 Tour de France , he fell again and broke his shoulder blade.

Honors

In 2012 Niki Terpstra was awarded the Gerrit Schulte Trofee as “Cyclist of the Year” in the Netherlands. However, he did not take the trophy personally and criticized the election process in advance. It is unclear how the nominations by the Club 48 would come about. It is incomprehensible to him that Lars Boom and Lieuwe Westra are not nominated despite their successes. In 2014, Terpstra complained that he himself had not been elected despite his victory at Paris-Roubaix .

successes

Terpstra shortly before his win at Paris – Roubaix in 2014

Street

2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2018

train

2004
2005
2006
2007
  • Dutch master Dutch champion - Scratch
  • Dutch master Dutch Champion - Madison (with Wim Stroetinga)
2011
2013
2014
2015
2019

Important placements

Monuments of cycling
Monument to cycling 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018
Milan – Sanremo - 143 83 41 38 45 DNF - - - - -
Tour of Flanders - 14th DSQ 45 - 6th 113 6th 2 10 3 1
Paris – Roubaix 74 103 16 32 - 5 3 1 15th DNF DNF 3
Liège – Bastogne – Liège DSQ - - DNF - - - - - - - -
Lombardy tour - - DNF - - - - - - - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout. DSQ: disqualification.
Grand tours
Grand Tour 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019
Maglia Rosa Giro d'Italia - - - - - - - - - - - - -
Yellow jersey Tour de France - 136 152 DNF 134 - 149 94 - - - 119 DNF
Red jersey Vuelta a España 142 - - 95 - 127 - - DNF 139 - -
Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

Web links

Commons : Niki Terpstra  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Terpstra broke both forearms. In: radsport-news.com. August 17, 2008. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Terpstra fulfills a childhood dream with Roubaix victory. In: radsport-news.com. April 13, 2014, accessed February 25, 2017 .
  3. ↑ Terpstra disqualified after an elbow attack. In: radsport-news.com. August 11, 2014, accessed February 25, 2017 .
  4. ↑ E3 Harelbeke: Quick-Step dominates - Terpstra wins. In: radsport-news.com. March 20, 2018, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  5. ↑ Terpstra celebrates solo victory in Oudenaarde, Sagan sixth. In: radsport-news.com. March 31, 2018, accessed April 1, 2018 .
  6. ↑ Terpstra is out for the next spring with a concussion. In: rad-net.de. April 8, 2019, accessed April 9, 2019 .
  7. ↑ German professionals for the first time since 2010 without a stage win. In: radsport-news.com. July 18, 2019, accessed July 18, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Terpstra: "Totaal geen zin in Gerrit Schulte Trofee". In: wielerupdate.nl. Retrieved February 25, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Terpstra loops Gerrit Schulte Trofee mis. In: Haarlem 105. November 25, 2014, accessed on February 25, 2017 (English).
personal data
SURNAME Terpstra, Niki
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH May 18, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Beverwijk