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{{Short description|Dutch cyclist (1957–1989)}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name           = Bert Oosterbosch
| image          = Bert Oosterbosch 1978.jpg
| fullname       = Bert Oosterbosch
| nickname       =
| birth_date     = {{Birth date|1957|7|30|df=y}}
| death_place    = [[Lekkerkerk]], [[Netherlands]]
| death_date     = {{Death date and age|1989|8|18|1957|7|30|df=y}}
| birth_place    = [[Eindhoven]], Netherlands
| discipline     = Road and track
| role           = Rider
| ridertype      = Time triallist
| proyears1      = 1979–1981
| proteam1       = TI–Raleigh
| proyears2      = 1982
| proteam2       = DAF Trucks
| proyears3      = 1983
| proteam3       = TI–Raleigh
| proyears4      = 1984–1986
| proteam4       = Panasonic
| proyears5      = 1987
| proteam5       = Panasonic-Isostar
| proyears6      = 1988
| proteam6       = TVM-Van Schilt
| majorwins      = World Champion professional individual pursuit<br>6 Tour de France stages<br>Ronde van Nederland
| medaltemplates =
{{MedalCountry| the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalSport| Men's [[cycling (sport)|cycling]] }}
{{MedalCompetition|World Championships}}
{{MedalGold |[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1978 Köln]]|Team time trial}}
{{MedalGold |[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1979 Amsterdam]]|Professional pursuit}}
{{MedalBronze |[[UCI Track Cycling World Championships|1981 Brno]]|Professional pursuit}}
}}

'''Bert Oosterbosch''' (30 July 1957 – 18 August 1989) was a Dutch [[racing cyclist]]. Oosterbosch was a successful [[Track cycling|track]] and [[Road bicycle racing|road]] racer.

==Early career==
In 1978, he won the World amateur [[team time trial]] championship (with [[Jan van Houwelingen (cyclist)|Jan van Houwelingen]], [[Bart van Est]] and [[Guus Bierings]]). A year later, he turned professional for the [[TI–Raleigh]]team of [[Peter Post]]. That year he won the World Professional [[individual pursuit]] title beating [[Francesco Moser]] in the final. He was also three times Dutch pursuit champion.

==Road success==
As a professional Oosterbosch was especially successful in [[Individual time trial|time trials]]; he won 14 stage race prologues, including three in the [[Tour de France]]. He won three other stages of the Tour: his victory in [[Bordeaux]] in 1983 was the one hundredth Dutch stage win in the Tour.

Oosterbosch also won stages in the [[Vuelta a España]] and the [[Tour de Suisse]]. In 1982 he won the [[Ronde van Nederland]].

==Poor health==
Oosterbosch suffered poor health on occasions, twice contracting meningitis. In 1988 he was hit by severe knee trouble and had to end his professional career. He returned as an amateur and on 13 August 1989 he won a race. Five days later he died, aged thirty-two years old, after an acute cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Roman Catholic Cemetery Our Lady of Lourdes in Eindhoven. His tombstone depicts cycle racing.

Bert Oosterbosch was married to Marian Bik. The couple had two daughters: Nathalie and Joyce.

==Allegations of doping==
It has been suggested that Oosterbosch's early death was caused by EPO use,<ref>Simon Hart (28 June 2003). [https://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/main.jhtml?xml=/sport/2003/06/29/sotour29.xml "Tour de France: Cycle of cynicism keeps rolling on" ]{{dead link|date=July 2021|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}. Daily Telegraph. Retrieved on 2012-11-18.</ref> but this is disputed.<ref>{{cite book|author=Peter G. J. M. Janssen |title=Lactate Threshold Training: Running, Cycling, Multisport, Rowing, X-Country Skiing |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Ns4u0-N0q4MC&pg=PA190 |accessdate=18 November 2012 |year=2001 |publisher=Human Kinetics |isbn=978-0-7360-3755-6 |pages=190–}}</ref>

[[Willy Voet]], the disgraced former soigneur, talks about Oosterbosch riding the 1982 [[Grand Prix des Nations]]. Oosterbosch came in 18th at more than two and a half minutes behind the winner [[Bernard Hinault]], even though he was expected to do well. Voet said "Oosterbosch was flat from the start due to the [[Synacthen]] he had taken. The drugs initially blocked his ability to work hard. An hour after the injection it started working as planned and his tempo increased."<ref>[http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/1999/may99/may20.shtml Willy Voet goes for the jugular in his book]. Autobus.cyclingnews.com (20 May 1999). Retrieved on 2012-11-18.</ref> In fact, Oosterbosch came third in the 1982 event. Voet may be referring to the 1979 or 1984 runnings which Hinault also won.<ref>[http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/disparues/anc_gp_nations.php Palmares of the Grand Prix des Nations at] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120223120736/http://www.memoire-du-cyclisme.net/disparues/anc_gp_nations.php |date=February 23, 2012 }}. Memoire-du-cyclisme.net (15 August 2009). Retrieved on 2012-11-18.</ref>

==Major results==
[[File:Bert Oosterbosch 1979.jpg|thumb|Bert Oosterbosch in 1979]]
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;1979
: World Professional pursuit champion
;1980
: [[Tour of Luxembourg]]
: 1 stage, [[1980 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
;1981
: [[Four Days of Dunkirk]]
;1982 
: [[Ronde van Nederland]]
: 1 stage, [[Tour de Suisse]]
;1983 
: [[Tour of the Americas]]
: [[Étoile de Bessèges]]
: 2 stages, [[1983 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
;1984 
: [[E3 Prijs Vlaanderen]]
: [[Driedaagse van De Panne]]
: 1 stage, [[Tour de Suisse]]
;1985 
: 1 stage, [[Vuelta a España]]
{{div col end}}

==See also==
* [[List of doping cases in cycling]]

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
{{Commons category|Bert Oosterbosch}}
*[http://www.veloarchive.com/riders/riders.php?id=O Oosterbosch at veloarchive.com]
*{{Webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120504180729/http://www.cyclingwebsite.net/coureuruitslagenfiche.php?coureurid=3138 |date=May 4, 2012 |title=Oosterbosch at cyclingwebsite.net }}

{{UCI Track Cycling World Champions – Men's individual pursuit}}

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