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* [http://www.sport.nl/overige/deelnemersfinder/ Dutch Olympic Committee] |
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*[http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/fr/TDF/coureur/33356.html Official Tour de France results for Daan de Groot] |
*[http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/fr/TDF/coureur/33356.html Official Tour de France results for Daan de Groot] |
Revision as of 23:21, 4 December 2016
Personal information | |
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Full name | Daniël de Groot |
Born | Amsterdam, the Netherlands | 25 May 1933
Died | 8 January 1982 Amsterdam, the Netherlands | (aged 48)
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Daniël ("Daan") de Groot (25 May 1933 – 8 January 1982) was a road bicycle and track cyclist from the Netherlands, who represented his native country at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, Finland.[1]
In the 1952 Olympics, De Groot was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the men's 4,000 m team pursuit, alongside Adrie Voorting, Jan Plantaz and Jules Maenen.[1] In 1954, he became a professional road cyclist, which he remained until 1962.
During the 1955 Tour de France, De Groot was in the thirteenth initially dropped by the peloton, and had problems with the heat. When he passed a field with cabbage, he took two leaves and put them in his neck and on his head, to protect him from the sun. He regained his strength, and was able to get back to the peloton. The peloton was also suffering from the heat, and De Groot decided to go for his chance, and escaped from the peloton. Nobody answered his attack, so he went solo. After some time, he was told his advantage was "treize minutes" (thirteen minutes), but De Groot's knowledge of the French language was not perfect, and he thought his advantage was three minutes, and he increased his speed. In the end he won the stage by more than twenty minutes.[2]
His sister Jannie competed as a swimmer for the Netherlands at the 1948 Summer Olympics.[1] De Groot committed suicide in 1982, a year after his wife had died.
Major results
- 1954
- Omloop der Kempen
- 1955
- Tour de France:
- Winner stage 13
- 1956
- Assen
- Netherlands national track pursuit championship
- 1957
- Nuth
- 1959
- Oostburg
- Alphen aan de Rijn
See also
References
- ^ a b c "Daan de Groot Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Retrieved 28 December 2012.
- ^ De Haan, Rob (11 August 2010). "Dankzij de koolbladeren" (in Dutch). NuSport. Archived from the original on 14 September 2010. Retrieved 12 August 2010.
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External links
- Dutch Olympic Committee
- Daan de Groot at Cycling Archives
- Official Tour de France results for Daan de Groot
- 1933 births
- 1982 deaths
- Cyclists at the 1952 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists who committed suicide
- Dutch male cyclists
- Dutch Tour de France stage winners
- Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Amsterdam
- Suicides in the Netherlands
- Track cyclists
- Tour de France cyclists
- Male suicides
- Dutch cycling biography stubs