Piet Dickentman

Piet Dickentman

Dickentman as a racing driver

Piet Dickentman , actually Pieter Caspar Johan Dickentman, (born January 4, 1879 in Amsterdam , † October 7, 1950 ibid) was a Dutch cyclist .

Piet Dickentmann was born the son of a carpenter. After graduating from school, he learned to be a mechanical engineer before turning to cycling at the age of 16. He competed in his first standing race as an amateur in Germany in 1898 . From 1899 to 1926 he worked as a professional. In his first year as a professional, Dickentman became world champion in Vienna on the quintuplet (bike with five riders), the so-called "Mulder-Quint" under the helmsman Jan Mulder, his sponsor. In 1900 his team set a world record. Then Dickentman switched to the standing position .

In October 1900 Dickentman became European champion over 100 km in Breslau . He established himself as one of the fiercest competitors of the German star Thaddäus Robl , with whom he fought numerous duels. Together with his competitor and friend Robl, he traveled to Australia in 1902 to compete in cycling races. In the following years he traveled several times to Australia, where he also had his first marriage.

In 1903 Dickentman became world champion in Copenhagen . In the years that followed, he continued to race successfully, albeit without great success. During this time he lived in Berlin . In 1910 he won the so-called "Upper World Championship" at the Steglitz Radrennbahn , an unofficial World Cup that Germany organized because it had withdrawn its starters from the 1910 UCI Track World Championships in protest against alleged wrong decisions . From then on, Dickentman was jokingly considered the "world champion" in the scene.

In 1918 Dickentman opened a bicycle shop in Amsterdam and married for the second time. He remained active as a racing driver until 1927, but attempts at a comeback and as a pacemaker failed. After the end of his career, he reopened a bicycle shop in his hometown.

literature

• Wheel world. Sports album. A cycling yearbook. 2nd year, 1903, ZDB ID 749618-7 .

Web links

Commons : Piet Dickentman  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• piet-dickentman.de
• Piet Dickentman on cycling4fans.de
• Piet Dickentman in the Radsportseiten.net database
• Instituut voor Nederlandse geschiedenis (in Dutch)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Association of German cyclists (ed.): Radsport . No. 42/1950 . German sports publisher Kurt Stoof, Cologne 1950, p. 9 .