Léon van Bon
Appearance
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Personal information | |
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Full name | Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon |
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) |
Team information | |
Current team | Marco Polo |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider |
Major wins | |
Tour de France, 2 stages Vuelta a España, 1 stage HEW Cyclassics (1998) Ronde van Nederland (2001) |
Medal record | ||
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Representing the ![]() | ||
Track cycling | ||
Olympic Games | ||
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Barcelona 1992 | Points Race |
Road bicycle racing | ||
UCI Road World Championships | ||
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1997 San Sebastian | Elite Men's Road Race |
Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon (born January 28, 1972 in Asperen, Gelderland) is a road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the HEW Cyclassics. In 2001 he claimed the overall-victory in the Ronde van Nederland.
Palmares
- 1988
Netherlands U17 Pursuit Champion
Netherlands U17 Sprint Champion
- 1989
Netherlands U19 Pursuit Champion
Netherlands U19 Points Race Champion
Netherlands U19 Sprint Champion
- 1990
Netherlands U19 Points Race Champion
Netherlands U19 Sprint Champion
World U19 Points Race Championship
- 1991
Netherlands Amateur Points Race Champion
- 2nd, National Time Trial Championship
- 2nd, National Amateur Pursuit Championship
- 1992
Netherlands Madison Champion
Netherlands Amateur Points Race Champion
- 2nd, Olympic Games, Points Race
- 2nd, National Amateur Pursuit Championship
- 2nd, Overall, Olympia's Tour
- Winner Prologue
- 1993
- 1st, Stages 1 & 7, Tour de l'Avenir
- 1994
- 1st, Tour de la Haute-Sambre
- 2nd, National Points Race Championship
- 1995
- 1st, Stage 7, DuPont Tour
- 3rd, Overall, PostGirot Open
- 1996
- 1st, Overall, Wien-Rabenstein-Gresten-Wien
- 1st, Stage 4, DuPont Tour
- 1st, Stage 1, Tirreno-Adriatico
- 1997
- 1st, Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen
- 1st, Amsterdam RAI Derny Race
- 1st, Stage 18, Vuelta a España
- 3rd, Stage 8
- 5th, Stages 3 & 17
World Road Race Championship
- 9th, Paris-Tours
- 1998
- 1st, HEW Cyclassics
- 1st, Stage 9, Tour de France
- 3rd, Stage 14
- 2nd, World Cup
- 3rd, National Road Race Championship
- 4th, Paris-Roubaix
- 8th, Clasicá San Sebastián
- 1999
- 1st, Stage 1, Prudential Tour
- 6th, Milan-Sanremo
- 6th, Paris-Roubaix
- 6th, Amstel Gold Race
- 8th, Paris-Tours
- 2000
Netherlands Road Race Champion
- 1st, Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
- 1st, Stage 6, Tour de France
- 7th, Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 2001
- 1st, Overall, Ronde van Nederland
- 1st, First Union Invitational
- 2nd, Gent-Wevelgem
- 2002
- 1st, Stage 4, Tour de Suisse
- 2003
- 1st, Veenendaal-Veenendaal
- 1st, Stage 3, Deutschland Tour
- 2004
- 1st, Stage 3, Paris-Nice
- 1st, Stage 5, Ronde van Nederland
- 4th, Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 7th, Paris-Roubaix
- 10th, World Cup
- 2005
Netherlands Road Race Champion
- 6th, Paris-Roubaix
- 8th, Ronde van Vlaanderen
- 2007
- 1st, Nokere Koerse
References
Categories:
- Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Dutch cyclists
- Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Dutch Tour de France stage winners
- Vuelta a España stage winners
- People from Gelderland
- 1972 births
- Living people
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
- Dutch cycling biography stubs