Hennie Kuiper

Hennie Kuiper
	Kuiper in 1988
Personal information
Full name	Hendrikus Andreas Kuiper
Born	3 February 1949 (age 72); Denekamp, Netherlands
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-Rounder
Professional teams
1973–1974	Rokado–De Gribaldy
1975	Frisol–G.B.C.
1976–1978	TI–Raleigh–Campagnolo
1979–1980	Peugeot–Esso–Michelin
1981–1983	DAF Trucks–Côte d'Or
1984	Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko
1985	Verandalux–Dries
1986–1987
1988	Sigma–Fina
Major wins
	Grand Tours Tour de France 3 individual stages (1976, 1977, 1978) 2 TTT stages (1976, 1978) Vuelta a España 2 individual stages (1975, 1976) Stage Races Tour de Suisse (1976) Single-Day Races and Classics ; World Road Race Championships (1975) National Road Race Championships (1975) Tour of Flanders (1981) Giro di Lombardia (1981) Paris–Roubaix (1983) Milan–San Remo (1985)
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Representing the Netherlands
Men's road bicycle racing
Olympic Games
World Championships

Hendrikus Andreas "Hennie" Kuiper (born 3 February 1949) is a Dutch former professional road racing cyclist. His career includes a gold medal in the Olympic road race at Munich in 1972, becoming world professional road race champion in 1975, as well as winning four of the five “Monument” classics. He rode the Tour de France 12 times, finishing second twice and winning the stage to Alpe d'Huez on two occasions. Kuiper, Ercole Baldini and Paolo Bettini are the only riders to have won both the Olympic road race and the world professional road race.

Biography[]

Kuiper was born in Denekamp, in Overijssel province. His serious introduction to the bicycle was to and from school in Enschede. He started participating in junior races from 14 and from 19 to 23 he won 39 times as an amateur. The climax of his amateur career was gold in the Olympic road race in Munich in 1972, riding the final 40 km alone.^[1] He also won the Tour of Britain (Milk Race) that year.

Professional career[]

Kuiper turned professional in 1973 with the small German team Haro-Rokado. His career took off in 1975 when he signed for the Dutch team, Frisol, where he got more chances to shine and formed a partnership with José De Cauwer (who worked for Kuiper in races) that lasted until 1980. The 1975 season saw Kuiper become world champion at Yvoir in Belgium, winning a tough race over 260 km, with 21 ascents of a 3 km (2 mi) climb.

Kuiper signed for TI–Raleigh in 1976 and finished second in the 1977 Tour de France 48 seconds behind Bernard Thévenet, who later admitted using steroids. Kuiper won the mountain stage at Alpe d’Huez, a feat he repeated in 1978. Kuiper finished fourth in the 1979 Tour and second in 1980 behind Joop Zoetemelk. That second place ended his best years as a stage race rider and in 1981 he moved to DAF Trucks and re-invented himself as a one-day classics rider. 1981 saw him win the Tour of Flanders and the Giro di Lombardia while in 1983 he won Paris–Roubaix at the 11th attempt. In 1985, at 36, he won Milan–San Remo. His retirement came on 6 November 1988 at 39 at a small cyclo-cross at Oldenzaal in his home province.

Team manager[]

After retirement Kuiper managed the small German pro squad Team Stuttgart between 1989 and 1990. In 1991 he became head of the Telekom team. In 1992 he was approached by Jim Ochowicz, manager of the American Motorola team, to become assistant team manager. Kuiper stayed with Motorola for four years. Since 1997 he has worked for the Rabobank team in public relations, as well as coaching the Dutch national team on occasions. He has two sons from his first marriage with Ine Nolten: Patrick Kuiper and Bjorn Kuiper. He lives with his second wife, Marianne, in Lonneker.

Career achievements[]

Major results[]

1970

3rd Overall Tour of Yugoslavia

1st Stage 2

1971

1st

Overall Circuit de Saône-et-Loire

1st Stage 5 Tour of Yugoslavia

1st Stage 1a Trois jours de Hénin Liétard

3rd Overall Rheinland-Pfalz Rundfahrt

1st Stage 7

1972

1st

Road race, Olympic Games

1st

Overall Milk Race

1st

Overall Ronde van Drenthe

2nd Overall Tour du Limousin

10th Overall Trophée Peugeot de l'Avenir

1973

1st Stage 2 Tour de l'Aude

2nd Zuri–Metzgete

4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

5th Amstel Gold Race

10th Overall Volta a Catalunya

1974

1st

Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire

1st GP Union Dortmund

2nd Paris–Camembert

7th Overall Paris–Nice

7th Overall Volta a Catalunya

9th Zuri–Metzgete

1975

1st

Road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

2nd Grand Prix Le Télégramme de Brest

2nd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

3rd Trofeo Baracchi

4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

5th Overall Vuelta a España

1st Stage 18

7th Paris–Brussels

9th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

9th Amstel Gold Race

10th Overall Tour of the Netherlands

1976

Tour de France

1st Stages 4 & 5a (TTT)

2nd Overall Paris–Nice

2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

2nd Omloop Het Volk

2nd Paris–Brussels

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

4th Paris–Roubaix

5th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

5th Amstel Gold Race

6th Overall Vuelta a España

1st Stage 4

1st

Overall Tour de Suisse

1st Stage 3

10th Overall Tour of the Netherlands

1977

2nd Overall Tour de France

1st Stage 17

2nd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

3rd Amstel Gold Race

3rd Paris–Tours

4th Road race, UCI Road World Championships

6th Paris–Brussels

4th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk

8th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

10th Paris–Roubaix

10th Tour of Flanders

1978

Tour de France

1st Stages 4 (TTT) & 16

2nd Overall Tour de Romandie

2nd Trofeo Baracchi

3rd Rund um den Henninger Turm

3rd Grand Prix des Nations

4th Overall Tour de Suisse

5th Overall Tour Méditerranéen

5th Amstel Gold Race

6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

6th Paris–Roubaix

6th La Flèche Wallonne

7th Overall Paris–Nice

9th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré

1st Prologue

1979: 3rd Paris–Roubaix; 4th Overall Tour de France; 4th Overall Critérium National de la Route; 5th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre; 6th Grand Prix de Wallonie; 7th Overall Tour de l'Aude; 7th Tour of Flanders; 7th Grand Prix des Nations; 8th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk; 8th Overall Tour Méditerranéen; 9th La Flèche Wallonne; 10th Giro di Lombardia; 10th Gent–Wevelgem
1980: 2nd Overall Tour de France; 2nd Overall Tour d'Indre-et-Loire; 2nd Liège–Bastogne–Liège; 4th Overall Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré; 4th Paris–Brussels; 5th Overall Grand Prix du Midi Libre; 5th Giro di Lombardia; 7th La Flèche Wallonne; 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie; 8th Gent–Wevelgem
1981: 1st Giro di Lombardia; 1st Tour of Flanders; 2nd Overall Tour of the Netherlands; 6th Paris–Roubaix; 6th Giro dell'Emilia; 6th Nationale Sluitingsprijs; 7th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen; 8th Paris–Tours; 9th Rund um den Henninger Turm
1982: 1st Grand Prix de Wallonie; 2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg; 2nd Trofeo Baracchi; 5th La Flèche Wallonne; 6th Amstel Gold Race; 6th Brabantse Pijl; 6th Paris–Tours; 7th Overall Paris–Nice; 8th Paris–Brussels; 9th Overall Tour de France; 10th Giro di Lombardia
1983: 1st Paris–Roubaix; 2nd Trofeo Baracchi; 4th Giro di Lombardia; 5th Overall Vuelta a España; 6th Liège–Bastogne–Liège
1984: 6th Grand Prix de Fourmies; 9th Paris–Roubaix; 10th Zuri–Metzgete
1985: 1st Milan–San Remo; 3rd Tour of Flanders; 5th Bordeaux–Paris; 6th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne; 8th Paris–Roubaix; 10th Trofeo Laigueglia
1986: 10th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
1987: 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm
1988: 3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal Classic; 8th Grand Prix d'Ouverture La Marseillaise; 10th Overall Critérium International

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

Grand Tour	1973	1974	1975	1976	1977	1978	1979	1980	1981	1982	1983	1984	1985	1986	1987	1988
Vuelta a España	—	—	5	6	—	—	—	—	—	—	5	—	—	—	—	—
Giro d'Italia	16	DNF	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	—	22	44	—
Tour de France	—	—	11	DNF	2	DNF	4	2	30	9	DNF	56	DNF	—	—	95

DNF = Did Not Finish

References[]

^ "Hennie Kuiper Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

Sporting positions
Preceded by Cees Priem	Dutch National Road Race Champion 1975	Succeeded by Jan Raas
Awards
Preceded by Piet Kleine	Dutch Sportsman of the Year 1977	Succeeded by Gerrie Knetemann

[sports-reference-1] "Hennie Kuiper Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 25 October 2014. Retrieved 25 October 2014.

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1900–1919	Lucien Petit-Breton (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Luigi Ganna (1909) Eugène Christophe (1910) Gustave Garrigou (1911) Henri Pélissier (1912) Odile Defraye (1913) Ugo Agostoni (1914) Ezio Corlaita (1915) (1916, not held) Gaetano Belloni (1917) Costante Girardengo (1918) Angelo Gremo (1919)
1920–1939	Gaetano Belloni (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921) Giovanni Brunero (1922) Costante Girardengo (1923) Pietro Linari (1924) Costante Girardengo (1925–1926) Pietro Chesi (1927) Costante Girardengo (1928) Alfredo Binda (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Alfredo Bovet (1932) Learco Guerra (1933) Jef Demuysere (1934) Giuseppe Olmo (1935) Angelo Varetto (1936) Cesare Del Cancia (1937) Giuseppe Olmo (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Pierino Favalli (1941) Adolfo Leoni (1942) Cino Cinelli (1943) (1944–1945, not held) Fausto Coppi (1946) Gino Bartali (1947) Fausto Coppi (1948–1949) Gino Bartali (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Loretto Petrucci (1952–1953) Rik Van Steenbergen (1954) Germain Derycke (1955) Fred De Bruyne (1956) Miguel Poblet (1957) Rik Van Looy (1958) Miguel Poblet (1959)
1960–1979	René Privat (1960) Raymond Poulidor (1961) Emile Daems (1962) Joseph Groussard (1963) Tom Simpson (1964) Arie den Hartog (1965) Eddy Merckx (1966–1967) Rudi Altig (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Michele Dancelli (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Roger De Vlaeminck (1973) Felice Gimondi (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975–1976) Jan Raas (1977) Roger De Vlaeminck (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Pierino Gavazzi (1980) Alfons De Wolf (1981) Marc Gomez (1982) Giuseppe Saronni (1983) Francesco Moser (1984) Hennie Kuiper (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Erich Maechler (1987) Laurent Fignon (1988–1989) Gianni Bugno (1990) Claudio Chiappucci (1991) Sean Kelly (1992) Maurizio Fondriest (1993) Giorgio Furlan (1994) Laurent Jalabert (1995) Gabriele Colombo (1996) Erik Zabel (1997–1998) Andrei Tchmil (1999)
2000–2019	Erik Zabel (2000–2001) Mario Cipollini (2002) Paolo Bettini (2003) Óscar Freire (2004) Alessandro Petacchi (2005) Filippo Pozzato (2006) Óscar Freire (2007) Fabian Cancellara (2008) Mark Cavendish (2009) Óscar Freire (2010) Matthew Goss (2011) Simon Gerrans (2012) Gerald Ciolek (2013) Alexander Kristoff (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Arnaud Démare (2016) Michał Kwiatkowski (2017) Vincenzo Nibali (2018) Julian Alaphilippe (2019)
2020–2039	Wout van Aert (2020) Jasper Stuyven (2021)

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1920–1939	Jules Vanhevel (1920) René Vermandel (1921) Léon Devos (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Gerard Debaets (1924) Julien Delbecque (1925) Denis Verschueren (1926) Gerard Debaets (1927) Jan Mertens (1928) Joseph Dervaes (1929) Frans Bonduel (1930) Romain Gijssels (1931–1932) Alphonse Schepers (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934) Louis Duerloo (1935) Louis Hardiquest (1936) Michel D'Hooghe (1937) Edgard de Caluwé (1938) Karel Kaers (1939)
1940–1959	Achiel Buysse (1940–1941) Briek Schotte (1942) Achiel Buysse (1943) Rik Van Steenbergen (1944) Sylvain Grysolle (1945) Rik Van Steenbergen (1946) Emiel Faignaert (1947) Briek Schotte (1948) Fiorenzo Magni (1949–1951) Roger Decock (1952) Wim van Est (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Louison Bobet (1955) Jean Forestier (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Germain Derycke (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)
1960–1979	Arthur Decabooter (1960) Tom Simpson (1961) Rik Van Looy (1962) Noël Foré (1963) Rudi Altig (1964) Jo de Roo (1965) Edward Sels (1966) Dino Zandegù (1967) Walter Godefroot (1968) Eddy Merckx (1969) Eric Leman (1970) Evert Dolman (1971) Eric Leman (1972–1973) Cees Bal (1974) Eddy Merckx (1975) Walter Planckaert (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Walter Godefroot (1978) Jan Raas (1979)
1980–1999	Michel Pollentier (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) René Martens (1982) Jan Raas (1983) Johan Lammerts (1984) Eric Vanderaerden (1985) Adri van der Poel (1986) Claude Criquielion (1987) Eddy Planckaert (1988) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1989) Moreno Argentin (1990) Edwig Van Hooydonck (1991) Jacky Durand (1992) Johan Museeuw (1993) Gianni Bugno (1994) Johan Museeuw (1995) Michele Bartoli (1996) Rolf Sørensen (1997) Johan Museeuw (1998) Peter Van Petegem (1999)
2000–2019	Andrei Tchmil (2000) Gianluca Bortolami (2001) Andrea Tafi (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Steffen Wesemann (2004) Tom Boonen (2005–2006) Alessandro Ballan (2007) Stijn Devolder (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Nick Nuyens (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013–2014) Alexander Kristoff (2015) Peter Sagan (2016) Philippe Gilbert (2017) Niki Terpstra (2018) Alberto Bettiol (2019)
2020–2039	Mathieu van der Poel (2020) Kasper Asgreen (2021)

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1880–1899	Josef Fischer (1896) Maurice Garin (1897–1898) Albert Champion (1899)
1900–1919	Émile Bouhours (1900) Lucien Lesna (1901–1902) Hippolyte Aucouturier (1903–1904) Louis Trousselier (1905) Henri Cornet (1906) Georges Passerieu (1907) Cyrille van Hauwaert (1908) Octave Lapize (1909–1911) Charles Crupelandt (1912) François Faber (1913) Charles Crupelandt (1914) (1915–1918, not held) Henri Pélissier (1919)
1920–1939	Paul Deman (1920) Henri Pélissier (1921) Albert Dejonghe (1922) Heiri Suter (1923) Jules Vanhevel (1924) Félix Sellier (1925) Julien Delbecque (1926) Georges Ronsse (1927) André Leducq (1928) Charles Meunier (1929) Julien Vervaecke (1930) Gaston Rebry (1931) Romain Gijssels (1932) Sylvère Maes (1933) Gaston Rebry (1934–1935) Georges Speicher (1936) Jules Rossi (1937) Lucien Storme (1938) Émile Masson Jr. (1939)
1940–1959	(1940–1942, not held) Marcel Kint (1943) Maurice Desimpelaere (1944) Paul Maye (1945) Georges Claes (1946–1947) Rik Van Steenbergen (1948) André Mahé, Serse Coppi (1949) Fausto Coppi (1950) Antonio Bevilacqua (1951) Rik Van Steenbergen (1952) Germain Derycke (1953) Raymond Impanis (1954) Jean Forestier (1955) Louison Bobet (1956) Fred De Bruyne (1957) Leon Vandaele (1958) Noël Foré (1959)
1960–1979	Pino Cerami (1960) Rik Van Looy (1961–1962) Emile Daems (1963) Peter Post (1964) Rik Van Looy (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Jan Janssen (1967) Eddy Merckx (1968) Walter Godefroot (1969) Eddy Merckx (1970) Roger Rosiers (1971) Roger De Vlaeminck (1972) Eddy Merckx (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974–1975) Marc Demeyer (1976) Roger De Vlaeminck (1977) Francesco Moser (1978–1979)
1980–1999	Francesco Moser (1980) Bernard Hinault (1981) Jan Raas (1982) Hennie Kuiper (1983) Sean Kelly (1984) Marc Madiot (1985) Sean Kelly (1986) Eric Vanderaerden (1987) Dirk Demol (1988) Jean-Marie Wampers (1989) Eddy Planckaert (1990) Marc Madiot (1991) Gilbert Duclos-Lassalle (1992–1993) Andrei Tchmil (1994) Franco Ballerini (1995) Johan Museeuw (1996) Frédéric Guesdon (1997) Franco Ballerini (1998) Andrea Tafi (1999)
2000–2019	Johan Museeuw (2000) Servais Knaven (2001) Johan Museeuw (2002) Peter Van Petegem (2003) Magnus Bäckstedt (2004) Tom Boonen (2005) Fabian Cancellara (2006) Stuart O'Grady (2007) Tom Boonen (2008–2009) Fabian Cancellara (2010) Johan Vansummeren (2011) Tom Boonen (2012) Fabian Cancellara (2013) Niki Terpstra (2014) John Degenkolb (2015) Mathew Hayman (2016) Greg Van Avermaet (2017) Peter Sagan (2018) Philippe Gilbert (2019)
2020–2039	Not held (2020)

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1920–1939	Henri Pélissier (1920) Costante Girardengo (1921–1922) Giovanni Brunero (1923–1924) Alfredo Binda (1925–1927) Gaetano Belloni (1928) Pietro Fossati (1929) Michele Mara (1930) Alfredo Binda (1931) Antonio Negrini (1932) Domenico Piemontesi (1933) Learco Guerra (1934) Enrico Mollo (1935) Gino Bartali (1936) Aldo Bini (1937) Cino Cinelli (1938) Gino Bartali (1939)
1940–1959	Gino Bartali (1940) Mario Ricci (1941) Aldo Bini (1942) (1943–1944, not held) Mario Ricci (1945) Fausto Coppi (1946–1949) Renzo Soldani (1950) Louison Bobet (1951) Giuseppe Minardi (1952) Bruno Landi (1953) Fausto Coppi (1954) Cleto Maule (1955) André Darrigade (1956) Diego Ronchini (1957) Nino Defilippis (1958) Rik Van Looy (1959)
1960–1979	Emile Daems (1960) Vito Taccone (1961) Jo de Roo (1962–1963) Gianni Motta (1964) Tom Simpson (1965) Felice Gimondi (1966) Franco Bitossi (1967) Herman Van Springel (1968) Jean-Pierre Monseré (1969) Franco Bitossi (1970) Eddy Merckx (1971–1972) Felice Gimondi (1973) Roger De Vlaeminck (1974) Francesco Moser (1975) Roger De Vlaeminck (1976) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1977) Francesco Moser (1978) Bernard Hinault (1979)
1980–1999	Alfons De Wolf (1980) Hennie Kuiper (1981) Giuseppe Saronni (1982) Sean Kelly (1983) Bernard Hinault (1984) Sean Kelly (1985) Gianbattista Baronchelli (1986) Moreno Argentin (1987) Charly Mottet (1988) Tony Rominger (1989) Gilles Delion (1990) Sean Kelly (1991) Tony Rominger (1992) Pascal Richard (1993) Vladislav Bobrik (1994) Gianni Faresin (1995) Andrea Tafi (1996) Laurent Jalabert (1997) Oscar Camenzind (1998) Mirko Celestino (1999)
2000–2019	Raimondas Rumšas (2000) Danilo Di Luca (2001) Michele Bartoli (2002–2003) Damiano Cunego (2004) Paolo Bettini (2005–2006) Damiano Cunego (2007–2008) Philippe Gilbert (2009–2010) Oliver Zaugg (2011) Joaquim Rodríguez (2012–2013) Dan Martin (2014) Vincenzo Nibali (2015) Esteban Chaves (2016) Vincenzo Nibali (2017) Thibaut Pinot (2018) Bauke Mollema (2019)
2020–2039	Jakob Fuglsang (2020)

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Hennie Kuiper

Contents

Biography[]

Professional career[]

Team manager[]

Career achievements[]

Major results[]

Grand Tour general classification results timeline[]

See also[]

References[]

External links[]