Wim van Est
Willem "Wim" van Est (born March 25, 1923 in Fijnaart, today in Moerdijk ; † May 1, 2003 in Roosendaal ) was a Dutch cyclist . In 1951, he was the first Dutchman to win the yellow jersey in the 1951 Tour de France and the pink jersey in the 1953 Giro d'Italia .
Athletic beginnings
From the late 1940s to the early 1960s, Wim van Est was one of the most successful and at the same time most versatile cyclists in the Netherlands. Before he started cycling as an amateur in 1946, he smuggled tobacco by bicycle and therefore had to serve a prison sentence. He had five siblings; two brothers, Piet and Nico were also racing drivers.
Fall at the Tour de France 1951
Van Est became a professional in 1949. His first major success was in 1950 the 600-kilometer one-day race Bordeaux – Paris , which he was able to repeat in 1952 and 1961. In 1951 he was a member of the Dutch national team that took part in the Tour de France . On the 12th stage, he and a small group managed to break away, which earned him the yellow jersey. The following day - on the 13th stage - he fell into a 70 meter deep gorge on the descent from Col d'Aubisque , according to his own statement because of a flat tire .
Spectators and supervisors recovered Wim van Est with the help of 40 bicycle tubes that the sports director Kees Pellenaars had knotted together; the injured driver initially wanted to continue and had to be persuaded to go to a hospital. The saying of his team mate Gerard Peters became legendary, who dryly remarked in the gorge when the person wearing the yellow jersey had fallen: "Het is net een boterbloem." (Dutch = "It looks like a buttercup.") The team gave after this Accident up the race.
After his return to the Netherlands, Wim van Est used his popularity, which he had gained through this spectacular fall, for an advertising campaign for the watch brand “Pontiac” with the slogan: “Tik tak Pontiac - Zeventig meter viel ik diep, mijn hard stond stil, maar mijn Pontiac liep ... "(holl. =" I fell 70 meters deep, my heart stopped, but my Pontiac ran ... "). The bicycle, which was badly damaged by the accident, can be seen today in the Velorama bicycle museum in Nijmegen . Van Est took part in the tour seven times; when he was not nominated by Pellenaars in 1956, there were angry protests from fans.
More Achievements
In 1953, Wim van Est was again the first Dutchman to wear the pink jersey at the Giro d'Italia . He took part in the Giro four times and in the Vuelta a España three times , but was unable to place himself at the top of the overall rankings. In 1953 he won the Tour of Flanders, the Tour of the Netherlands in 1952 and 1954, and the Eight van Chaam in 1953 and 1955 .
Van Est was also a successful driver on the track . Four times he was the Dutch champion in the single pursuit and three times he was on the podium in this discipline at the UCI track world championships .
Others
In 1958, Wim van Est and his racing driver colleague Wout Wagtmans recorded a song entitled "Tour de France" on record. In 2001, on the 50th anniversary of his fall in the Tour de France, a memorial in his honor was unveiled in his hometown of Sint-Willebrord in a street named after him.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Ina.fr: "Chute du coureur hollandais Wim Van Est dans la 13ème étape du tour Dax Tarbes", accessed on May 12, 2010 (French)
- ↑ xxcmagazine: Vintage Badassness: Wim Van Est. (No longer available online.) In: xxcmag.com. Formerly in the original ; accessed on August 5, 2015 . ( 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.
Web links
- Wim van Est in the Radsportseiten.net database
- Wim van Est in the Tour de France database(French / English )
- Sportgeschiedenis.nl: "Het gedicht voor wielrenner Wim van Est accessed on May 12, 2010 (Dutch)
1888 HW van Raden | 1889 WG Delbaere | 1890 Henri Raland | 1891 Carel Koning | 1892 Henk van de Griendt | 1893, 1894 Jaap Eden | 1895, 1896 Willem van der Mey | 1904 Jan de Groot | 1906 Gerrit van Vliet | 1907 Jan Tulleken | 1908 Adrie Slot | 1909, 1914 Chris Kalkman | 1910 Henk Tamse | 1911 Krijn Schippers | 1912 Cees Erkelens | 1913, 1919, 1920 Frits Wiersma | 1915, 1917, 1918, 1921, 1925 Jorinus van der Wiel | 1916, 1926 Klaas van Nek | 1922 Herman Nankman | 1923, 1924 Piet Ikelaar | 1927 Joep Franssen | 1928, 1929 Hans Bockkom | 1930 Janus Braspennincx | 1931, 1934 Cesar Bogaert | 1932, 1935 Marinus Valentijn | 1933 Thijs van Oers | 1936 Kees Pellenaars | 1937, 1942 John Braspennincx | 1939 Janus Hellemons | 1940, 1941 Louis Motké | 1938, 1943, 1945 Theo Middelkamp | 1944, 1948, 1950, 1953 Gerrit Schulte | 1946 Bouk Schellingerhoudt | 1947, 1949 Sjef Janssen | 1951, 1952 Hans Dekkers | 1954 Adri Voorting | 1955 Thijs Roks | 1956, 1957 Wim van Est | 1958 Jef Lahaye | 1959 Piet Damen | 1960, 1961 Bas Maliepaard | 1962 From Geldermans | 1963 Peter Post | 1964, 1965 Jo de Roo | 1966 Karstens tanning | 1967 winner disqualified 1 | 1968 Evert Dolman | 1969 Jacques Frijters | 1970 Peter Kisner | 1971, 1973 Joop Zoetemelk | 1972 Tino Tobacco | 1974 Cees Priem | 1975 Hennie Kuiper | 1976, 1983, 1984 Jan Raas | 1977 Fedor den Hertog | 1978, 1979 Henk Lubberding | 1980, 1982 Johan van der Velde | 1981, 1985 Jacques Hanegraaf | 1986 Jos Lammertink | 1987 Adrie van der Poel | 1988 Peter Pieters | 1989 Frans Maassen | 1990 Peter Winnen | 1991, 1994 Steven Rooks | 1992 Tristan Hoffman | 1993 Erik Breukink | 1995 Servais Knaven | 1996, 1999 Maarten den Bakker | 1997, 1998, 2006 Michael Boogerd | 2000, 2005 Léon van Bon | 2001 Jans Koerts | 2002 Stefan van Dijk | 2003 Rudie Kemna | 2004 Erik Dekker | 2007, 2009 Koos Moerenhout | 2008 Lars Boom | 2010, 2012, 2015 Niki Terpstra | 2011 Pim Ligthart | 2013 Johnny Hoogerland | 2014 Sebastian Langeveld | 2016 Dylan Groenewegen | 2017 Ramon Sinkeldam | 2018, 2020 Mathieu van der Poel | 2019 Fabio Jakobsen
1915 Jan van Gent | 1919, 1921, 1924, 1925, 1927, 1928 Jan Snoek | 1920, 1931 Cor Blekemolen | 1922, 1923 Koos Storm | 1926, 1930, 1932 John Schlebaum | 1929, 1934 Frans Leddy | 1933 Albertus de Graaf | 1935 Martinus van der Wulp | 1936 Henk Alkema | 1937 Joop Snoek | 1938, 1939, 1941 Cor Wals | 1940 Adrie Zwartepoorte | 1944 Aad van Amsterdam | 1945, 1947, 1948, 1950–1952, 1954, 1955 Jan Pronk | 1949 Cees Bakker | 1953 Cor de Best | 1956, 1958 Wim van Est | 1957, 1960, 1961 Martin Wierstra | 1959, 1962, 1963 Norbert Koch | 1964 Hennie Marinus / Norbert Koch | 1965, 1967 Jacob Oudkerk | 1966 Jan Legrand | 1968–1970 Piet de Wit | 1971–1974, 1978 Cees Stam | 1975 Nico Been / Albertus de Graaf | 1976, 1979, 1980 Martin Venix | 1977 Fred Rompelberg / Norbert Koch | 1981, 1982, 1984, 1985 René Kos | 1994, 1996, 1998 Ronald Rol | 2000, 2004 Raymond Rol | 2002, 2003 Patrick Kops | 2005, 2006 Reinier Honig / Sam Mooij | 2007 Reinier Honey | 2008 Reinier Honig / Bruno Walrave | 2009–2011, 2013, 2015, 2016 Patrick Kos / Willem Fack | 2012 Matthé Pronk / Peter Bäuerlein | 2017, 2018, 2019 Reinier Honig / Jos Pronk
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Est, Wim van |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Est, Willem van (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Dutch cyclist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 25, 1923 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Fijnaart, Moerdijk |
| DATE OF DEATH | May 1, 2003 |
| Place of death | Roosendaal |