Gerben Karstens

Gerben Karstens

Personal information
Full name	Gerben Karstens
Born	(1942-01-14) 14 January 1942 Voorburg, the Netherlands
Team information
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Sprinter
Medal record Representing the Netherlands Men's road bicycle racing Olympic Games 1964 Tokyo Team time trial

Gerben Karstens (born 14 January 1942) is a former professional racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the gold medal in the 100 km team trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, alongside Bart Zoet, Evert Dolman, and Jan Pieterse. At the same Olympics he finished 27th in the individual road race.

Biography

After the Olympic Games, Karstens started a successful professional career, where he won six stages in the Tour de France, 14 stages in the Vuelta a España, 1 stage in the Giro d'Italia, and other races such as Paris–Tours and GP Fourmies. He became Dutch national road race champion in 1966.

In the 1974 Tour de France, Karstens finished second in the fourth stage. Afterwards, he forgot to take the doping tests. The tour organisation set him back to the last place of the stage results, and gave him 10 minutes penalty time in the overall classification, which made him lose his third place. One day later, the jury took the penalty time back. Thanks to 5 seconds of bonification that Karstens won during intermediate sprints, he took over the yellow jersey from Eddy Merckx. He wore yellow for one stage before losing it to Patrick Sercu after stage 6A, but he reclaimed the overall lead after stage 6B to spend another stage in Yellow before Merckx took over the lead for the remainder of the Tour.

Major results

1962

Ronde van Limburg

1964

Ronde van Noord-Holland

Ronde van Overijssel

Gold medal 100 km team time trial 1964 Olympic games

1965

Beveren-Waas

Sint-Amands

Rijen

Essen

Boom

Paris–Tours

Tour de France:

Winner stage 21

1966

Acht van Chaam

Critérium des As

Dutch National Road Race Championship

Vuelta a España:

Winner stages 12, 15B and 17

Denderleeuw

Eede

Bonheiden

Tour de France:

Winner stages 3B and 9

1967

Saint-Claid

Vuelta a España:

Winner stages 7, 10B, 17 and 18

Hamme

1968

Belsele

Hansweert

Grand Prix de Fourmies

1969

Gap

Rijkevoorsel

Putte-Mechelen

Langemark

1971

Booischot

Heusden

Vuelta a España:

Winner stage 11A

Tour de France:

Winner stage 1B

Born

Koersel

Le Quillo

1972

Pléaux

Ulestraten

Polderpijl

Plessala

1973

Critérium des As

Omloop van het Waasland

Vuelta a España:

Winner stage 2, 5, 7 and 12

Giro d'Italia:

Winner stage 5

Zwijndrecht

Six days of London (with Leo Duyndam)

1974

Nice-Seillans

Tour du Haut Var

Stekene

Vuelta a España:

Winner stage 16

Sint-Amandsberg

Tour de France:

Wearing yellow jersey for two days

1975

Kamerik

Six days of Rotterdam (with Leo Duyndam)

Dongen

1976

Gouden Pijl Emmen

Tour de France:

Winner stages 18C and 22B

Profronde van Pijnacker

Saussignac

Vuelta a España:

Winner stage 12

1977

Dordrecht

Petegem-aan-de-Leie

1978

Leiden

Mijl van Mares

See also

• List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
• List of Dutch cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification

External links

• "Website Gerben Karstens". Archived from the original on 25 August 2010. Retrieved 14 October 2017.
• "Dutch Olympic Committee" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 9 June 2007. Retrieved 9 April 2007.
• Gerben Karstens at Cycling Archives (archive)
• Official Tour de France results for Gerben Karstens