Peter Pieters

Peter Pieters

Peter Pieters (2015)
To person
Date of birth	2nd February 1962
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Street
End of career	1998
Most important successes
UCI track world championships 1991 - points race Road racing 1988 Paris – Tours
Team (s) as coach
? –2008 2008–2010 2010–	National team Netherlands National team Poland National team Belgium
Last updated: July 25, 2020

Pieters (r.) At the European Track Championships 2016 as starting helper for driver Ayrton De Pauw

Peter Pieters (* 2. February 1962 in Zwanenburg ) is a former Dutch cyclist and current cycling - coach .

Athletic career

He won his first national title in 1978 at the Dutch Youth Championships. He won in the sprint , in the points race and in the team pursuit , making him the most successful driver in the championship. In the juniors he continued this series of successes and won the sprint title in this class in 1979 and 1980. Peter Pieters was a professional cyclist from 1984 to 1996. He was successful on the road as well as on the track . Even as an amateur, from 1981 onwards he was several times Dutch champion in time trial , points trial and in the single track pursuit . He was able to repeat these successes many times as a professional. He also competed in six-day races ; In 1992 he won in Bordeaux, together with Pascal Lino , and in 1993 in Bremen with Urs Freuler . His greatest international success on the track was third place at the UCI Track World Championships in 1991 in Stuttgart in the points race.

On the road, Pieters became Dutch champion in 1988 and won Paris-Tours in the same year . He also took part in the Tour de France several times, but without success. He won several stages as well as victories in smaller road races, such as the Ronde van Midden-Zeeland . In 1998 he ended his active career by winning the Dutch track championship in points driving.

Professional

Peter Pieters then became the Dutch national coach for the short-term. He held this office until 2008; the German ex-sprinter René Wolff was his successor. Until 2010, Pieters worked for the Polish Cycling Federation as a trainer in the endurance area, until the association could no longer pay him due to financial problems. In 2010 he became national track trainer for the Belgian Cycling Federation, succeeding the dismissed Michel Vaarten . He received the Olympic Coach Award from the Nederlands Olympisch Comité .

family

His children, Roy and Amy Pieters , are also cyclists.

successes

train

1980

• Dutch Junior Champion - Sprint

1981

• Dutch amateur champion - individual pursuit

1982

• Dutch amateur champion - 1000 meter time trial, single pursuit

1983

• Dutch amateur champion - 1000 meter time trial, single pursuit, points race

1984

• Dutch amateur champion - 1000 meter time trial, points race, derny

1985

• Dutch amateur champion - points race

1991

• World Championship - points race

1992

• Six days of Bordeaux (with Pascal Lino )

1993

• Bremen six-day race (with Urs Freuler )
• Six days of Vienna (with Carsten Wolf )

1994

• Dutch master - one's pursuit

1995

• - Omnium
• Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race

1996

• Dutch champion - single pursuit, points race

1998

• Dutch champion - points race

Street

1983

• a stage Olympia's Tour
• Dutch amateur champion - team time trial

1984

• one stage tour of Burgos

1985

• one stage tour of Murcia

1987

• one stage tour of Burgos

1988

• a stage four days from Dunkirk
• a stage tour of Belgium
• Paris Tours
• Delta Profronde
• Dutch champion - road race

1989

• Grand Prix de la Liberation

1990

• one stage tour of the Netherlands

1992

• three stages tour of Sweden

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1985	1986	1987	1988	1989	1990	1991	1992
Vuelta a España	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	DNF	-	DNF	-	-	-
Tour de France	140	-	-	-	DNF	-	-	DNF

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

Teams

• 1984-1985 Zor-Gemeaz
• 1986 Skala-Skil
• 1987 Transvemij
• 1988 TVM-Van Schilt
• 1989–1990 TVM
• 1991-1992 Tulip Computers
• 1993 Jolly

Web links

Commons : Peter Pieters  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Peter Pieters in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Peter Pieters in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Individual evidence

1. ^ Pascal Sergent, Guy Crasset, Herve Dauchy: Wereld Encyclopedie Wielrennen . Eecloonaar, Eeklo 2001, p. 1472 (Flemish).
2. ↑ Nederlander Peter Pieters nieuwe bondscoach Belgian baanwielrenners. In: demorgen.be. August 8, 2010, accessed December 1, 2017 (nl_BE). 
3. ^ NOC * NSF - Every Olympic room. In: nocnsf.nl. Retrieved December 1, 2017 .