Theo Bos

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Theo Bos Road cycling
Theo Bos (2018)
Theo Bos (2018)
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Date of birth 22nd August 1983
nation NetherlandsNetherlands Netherlands
discipline Train / street
Most important successes
Olympic games
Silver medal 2004 Olympic Games - Sprint
UCI track world championships
2007 World Champion - SprintWorld Champion
2006 World Champion - SprintWorld Champion
2006 world champion - KeirinWorld Champion
2005 world champion - 1000 meter time trialWorld Champion
2004 World Champion - SprintWorld Champion
Last updated: February 13, 2020

Theo Bos (born August 22, 1983 in Egmond aan de Hoef ) is a Dutch cyclist . He became five times world champion in various rail disciplines , which no Dutchman had achieved before.

Athletic career

Bos was world champion in sprint at the 2004 track cycling world championships in Melbourne . He won the bronze medal in the 1000 m time trial. In August 2004, Bos took part in the Olympic Games in Athens . There he won the silver medal in the sprint behind the Australian Ryan Bayley . In 2005 he became world champion in the 1000 m time trial, in 2006 in the sprint and Keirin and again in the sprint in 2007. This makes him the most successful track cyclist in the Netherlands so far.

For the 2009 season, Bos switched from the track to the road and drove for the Rabobank Continental Team , which he will leave again towards the end of the season to switch to the Cervélo Test Team.

On the final stage of the Tour of Turkey on April 19, 2009, Theo Bos brought down his South African cycling colleague Daryl Impey and himself while preparing for a sprint. Impey suffered a fractured vertebra, lost several teeth, and suffered deep cuts on his face. Bos was then disqualified by the UCI for unsportsmanlike conduct and initially received a fine. In July 2009, a one-month ban from August 15 was also pronounced against him.

At the UCI Track World Championships 2011 in Apeldoorn , the Netherlands , Bos won bronze in the two-man team , together with Peter Schep . A targeted participation in the 2012 Olympic Games in London failed because he had to undergo an operation in November 2011, which prevented him from taking part in the necessary qualifying competitions.

In 2013, Theo Bos and his nephew Maikel , who was eleven years his junior, took part in the Dutch track championships in two-man team driving; the duo took tenth place.

In August 2014, Bos announced that he would be competing again in races on the track to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . He is thinking about ending his sporting career on the track. On his comeback at the 2015 Dutch track championships in Alkmaar , he was national champion in the 1000 meter time trial and sprint.

In 2016 Theo Bos was nominated for participation in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the team sprint he finished sixth together with Jeffrey Hoogland and Nils van 't Hoenderdaal . In the sprint he was eliminated after qualifying and in the keirin after the first round. After Bos did not yet have a new contract for the following year in November 2016, he decided to return entirely to the track and start there in the Omnium . At the UCI World Track Championships in Apeldoorn in 2018 , he won the bronze medal in the 1000-meter time trial.

Private

Theo Bos is the brother of the Dutch speed skater and cyclist Jan Bos . He lives with the cyclist Adrie Visser (* 1983) in Wieringerwerf .

successes

train

Theo Bos (l.) And Chris Hoy at the UCI Track World Championships 2008 in Manchester
2001
2002
  • European championU23 European Champion - Keirin
  • silverU23 European Championship - 1000 meter time trial, sprint
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - sprint, keirin
2003
  • European championU23 European champions - 1000 meter time trial, sprint
  • silver U23 European Championship - Keirin
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - sprint, keirin, 1000 meter time trial
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
  • European championEuropean Champion - Sprint- Omnium
2015
  • MaillotHolanda.svg Dutch champion - sprint, 1000 meter time trial
2016
2018
2019

Street

Theo Bos at the Driedaagse van West-Vlaanderen 2015
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014

Teams

Web links

Commons : Theo Bos  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The five-time Piet Moeskops and Gaby Minneboo always won their titles in the same discipline.
  2. ↑ BN De Stem v. September 18, 2009
  3. ↑ Theo Bos to the Cervélo TestTeam , Radsport-News.com v. September 25, 2009
  4. ↑ Radsport-News.com v. April 19th
  5. ↑ Press release on the Theo Bos case from May 1st, 2009  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.uci.ch  
  6. ↑ Radsport-news.com v. 4th July 2009
  7. ↑ Former track bike king Bos missed the 2012 Olympics on kurier.at v. November 8, 2011
  8. ^ Theo Bos in actie op NK baanwielrennen. (No longer available online.) Sportniews.nl, December 18, 2013, archived from the original on January 1, 2014 ; Retrieved December 31, 2013 (Dutch). 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.nieuws.nl
  9. ^ Pierre Carrey: Bos considering a return to track racing for 2016 Olympics. Cyclingnews, August 6, 2014, accessed August 6, 2014 .
  10. ↑ Results time trial. (PDF) (No longer available online.) In: KNWU. December 28, 2015, archived from the original on December 30, 2015 ; accessed on December 30, 2015 . 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.knwunkprogramma.nl
  11. ^ Gregor Brown: Eight of the best riders without a contract for 2017 (yet). In: Cycling Weekly. November 23, 2016, accessed November 26, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Bos, Theo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch cyclist
DATE OF BIRTH 22nd August 1983
PLACE OF BIRTH Egmond aan de Hoef