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{{Short description|Dutch cyclist (born 1940)}}
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{{Infobox cyclist
| name          = Jan Janssen
| image         = Jan Janssen (28 juni 1967).jpg
| caption       = Janssen at the [[1967 Tour de France]]
| fullname      = Johannes Adrianus Janssen
| nickname      = 
| birth_date    = {{Birth date and age|1940|5|19|df=yes}}
| birth_place   = [[Nootdorp]], [[South Holland]], Netherlands
| height        = {{height|m=1.74}}<ref name="PCS"/>
| weight        = {{convert|76|kg|lb stlb|0|abbr=on}}<ref name="PCS">{{cite web
|url=https://www.procyclingstats.com/rider/jan-janssen|title=Jan Janssen|work=ProCyclingStats|access-date=14 April 2025}}</ref>
| currentteam   = Retired
| discipline    = Road
| role          = Rider
| ridertype     = [[Glossary of cycling#all-rounder|All-rounder]]
| amateuryears1 = 
| amateurteam1  = 
| proyears1     = 1962
| proteam1      = Locomotief–Vredestein
| proyears2     = 1962–1968
| proteam2      = {{UCI team code|Pelforth|1962}}
| proyears3     = 1969–1971
| proteam3      = {{UCI team code|Bic|1969}}
| proyears4     = 1972
| proteam4      = {{UCI team code|Flandria|1972}}
| majorwins     = '''[[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tours]]'''
:'''[[Tour de France]]'''
::'''[[General classification in the Tour de France|General classification]]''' ([[1968 Tour de France|1968]])
::[[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]] ([[1964 Tour de France|1964]], [[1965 Tour de France|1965]], [[1967 Tour de France|1967]])
::7 individual stages ([[1963 Tour de France|1963]], [[1964 Tour de France|1964]], [[1965 Tour de France|1965]], [[1967 Tour de France|1967]], [[1968 Tour de France|1968]])
::1 TTT Stage ([[1963 Tour de France|1963]])
:'''[[Vuelta a España]]'''
::'''[[General classification in the Vuelta a España|General classification]]''' ([[1967 Vuelta a España|1967]])
::[[Points classification in the Vuelta a España|Points classification]] ([[1967 Vuelta a España|1967]], [[1968 Vuelta a España|1968]])
::3 individual stages ([[1967 Vuelta a España|1967]], [[1968 Vuelta a España|1968]])
'''[[Race stage|Stage Races]]'''
:[[Paris–Nice]] ([[1964 Paris–Nice|1964]])
'''[[Classic cycle races|One-day races and Classics]]'''
:[[UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Road Race Championships]] ([[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|1964]])
:[[Paris–Roubaix]] ([[1967 Paris–Roubaix|1967]])
| medaltemplates = 
{{MedalCountry| the {{NED}} }}
{{MedalSport| Men's [[road bicycle racing]] }}
{{MedalCompetition|[[UCI Road World Championships|World Championships]]}}
{{MedalGold |[[1964 UCI Road World Championships|1964 Sallanches]]|[[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Elite Men's Road Race]]}}
{{MedalSilver |[[1967 UCI Road World Championships|1967 Heerlen]]|[[1967 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Elite Men's Road Race]]}}
}}
'''Johannes Adrianus''' "'''Jan'''" '''Janssen'''{{efn|name=pronunciation|The phrase ''Johannes Adrianus Janssen'' is pronounced {{IPA|nl|joːˈɦɑnəs aːdriˈjaːnʏ ˈɕɑnsə(n)|}}. In isolation, the words are pronounced {{IPA|nl|joːˈɦɑnəs|}}, {{IPA|nl|aˑdriˈjaːnʏs|}} and {{IPA|nl|ˈjɑnsə(n)|}}. ''Jan Janssen'' is pronounced {{IPA|nl|jɑ ˈɲɑnsə(n)|}}; in isolation, ''Jan'' is pronounced {{IPA|nl|jɑn|}}.}} (born 19 May 1940) is a Dutch former professional cyclist. He was [[UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|world champion]] and winner of the [[Tour de France]] and the [[Vuelta a España]], the first Dutch rider to win either. He rode the Tour de France eight times and finished all but the first time. He won seven stages and wore the yellow jersey for two days (after stage 16 in [[1966 Tour de France|1966]] and after stage 22B in [[1968 Tour de France|1968]]). He was easily spotted in the peloton because of his blond hair and his glasses. As of the death of [[Federico Bahamontes]] in August 2023, he is the oldest surviving winner of the Tour de France, but not the most ancient winner: [[Lucien Aimar]] won in 1966.

==Early life==
Janssen was born at [[Nootdorp]], a small town near [[The Hague]] and [[Delft]], just five days after the Netherlands surrendered to the Nazis. He later moved to [[Putte (Netherlands)|Putte]], a village on the [[Belgium|Belgian]] border between [[Roosendaal]] and [[Antwerp]]. He worked with his parents as a youth, digging the heavy ground of the western Netherlands to excavate foundations for the buildings the family firm erected. He joined the cycling club at Delft when he was 16 and as a novice won 25 races in two years.<ref name="ReferenceA">"The world pro champion remembers Bill and Ben", Sporting Cyclist, 1964</ref>

==Career==
Janssen turned professional after an amateur career in which he won several Dutch classics and rode for the [[Netherlands]] in the [[Tour de l'Avenir]], which was then open to [[amateurs]] and to independents, or semi-professionals. Janssen rode for [[France|French]] teams and is especially associated with [[Pelforth-BP]], sponsored by a [[brewer]] and an [[oil]] company. His talent, authority, and command of French quickly established him as the team leader.
At first he had a reputation as a sprinter{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}} but he quickly developed into a rider of multi-day races.

He competed in the [[Cycling at the 1960 Summer Olympics – Men's individual road race|individual road race]] at the [[1960 Summer Olympics]].<ref name="sports-reference">{{cite web|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/jan-janssen-1.html |title=Jan Janssen Olympic Results |access-date=31 July 2014 |work=sports-reference.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141105053026/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ja/jan-janssen-1.html |archive-date= 5 November 2014 }}</ref>

He rode his first Tour de France in 1963, when he won a stage, but a crash forced him to retire. In 1964 he won [[Paris–Nice]], then two stages and the green jersey of points leader in the Tour. Later that year he became [[world champion]] at [[Sallanches]], in [[France]]. He wore the green jersey again in the Tour of 1965 and in 1966 came close to winning overall. But it was finally in 1968 that he became the first Dutchman to win the Tour de France, beating the [[Belgians|Belgian]],  [[Herman Van Springel]], by 38 seconds. That remained the smallest winning margin until 1989, when [[Greg LeMond]] won by only eight seconds ahead of [[Laurent Fignon]]. Janssen had not worn the yellow jersey as leader of the [[general classification in the Tour de France|general classification]] in 1968 until he reached [[Paris]] at the end of the final stage, an individual time-trial.

The Tour in 1968 was, like the previous year, for national teams rather than trade teams. The organisers resolved to "experiment" with national teams in a measure widely interpreted{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}} as revenge by the organiser, [[Félix Lévitan]], on sponsors he thought had provoked a [[Strike action|strike]] against drug tests the previous year. Putting into one team riders who the rest of the year rode for rival sponsors proved a problem and internal rivalries were said{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}} to divide the Dutch team more than most. Janssen had to overcome these internal problems to win. His victory in the orange jersey of the [[Netherlands]] rather than the blue, yellow and white of the [[Pelforth]]  team made his first win for the Netherlands all the more popular at home.{{Citation needed|date=October 2008}}

==Retirement==
[[File:Jan Janssen with family 1972.jpg|thumb|Janssen with his wife and daughter Karin during his retirement ceremony on 23 September 1972]]
He retired from racing, he says, after being left behind in the Tour of Luxembourg and being ashamed to hear his name listed on the race radio service among other also-rans.<ref name="ReferenceB">"There are no more hungry riders – says Janssen", Cycling, 8 February 1990</ref>

"I knew then that I was Jan Janssen, winner of the Tour de France and the championship of the world and that it was time for me to stop", he says.

He left the peloton to run a bicycle frame-building business in the south-western village of [[Woensdrecht|Putte]], which is divided by the border with Belgium. That company still bears his name today.<ref>{{cite web
| url = http://www.janjanssen.nl/index.php?p=Over%20ons#Historie
| title = History: 1972
| publisher = Jan Janssen Cycling
| access-date = 2013-07-22}}</ref> His neighbours there included another world champion, [[Hennie Kuiper]]. Janssen continued to ride his bike in retirement as a member of the Zuid-West Hoek club. He continues to make personal appearances along with other Dutch riders of his era. He said he enjoyed being recognised while on training rides.<ref name="ReferenceB"/>

==Personality==
The Dutch race organiser Charles Ruys, who called Janssen a businesslike, honest and straightforward man, said:

:Anybody who tries to do something unpleasant to Jan, may it be in a race or a matter of money, has a very tough opponent. Like most successful bikies, Jan knows the value of money. So much so that he gives the impression that he is our Minister of Finance.<ref name="ReferenceA"/>

A bit of insight into his personality, showing the respect and compassion he showed for his fellow riders, can be gathered from a 2007 interview regarding the feisty British rider Tom Simpson (see the [[Death of Tom Simpson]]):

:"Occasionally Tommy could be annoying. When it was rolling along at 30kmh and - paf!… he’d attack. Oh leave us alone! There's still 150km to go pipe down. But often, he wanted war.” Janssen went on to say, “Even in the feed zones. It's not the law, but it's not polite. Musettes (lunch bags) were up in the air there was panic and crashes. It was Simpson acting like a jerk. It didn't happen often. Occasionally I was angry at him. I’d say to him in his native English: You fucking cunt... There were often many teams, five or six, in the same hotel together every evening. Each had their own table. And at a certain moment, Tommy walked into the restaurant like a gentleman, with a cane, bowler hat and in costume… He was like a Lord in England and the rest of us were in tracksuits. Everyone saw that, laughed, and the things he had done during the race were forgotten.”<ref>{{cite web|url=https://rouleur.cc/editorial/tom-simpson-minor-major/|title=Bird on the Wire, an extract from the Tom Simpson biography - Journal|access-date=21 October 2019|archive-date=21 October 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20191021222240/https://rouleur.cc/editorial/tom-simpson-minor-major/|url-status=dead}}</ref>

==Views of modern racing==
Janssen spent most of his career with a French sponsor, profiting from the higher rate that the French franc enjoyed then against the guilder. But since then things have changed, he said.

:We had to be good all the time, from the first of February until the end of October. Because it was my duty to make the most of my sponsor's name, to get publicity. And if you had an off-day, well, you were letting your sponsors down. Now the whole sponsorship of sport has taken off. It has become so interesting to a company, because a company that wants to get its name known, you can buy a good team, with good management, good public relations, and you can get all the big names. I think, too, that the motivation has changed with the professionals as well. You get riders like [[Steven Rooks]] and [[Gert-Jan Theunisse]] saying that after the Tour they are stopping at home because they can't be bothered with [[criterium]]s, and that's not attractive for the public.<ref>"There are no more hungry riders" – says Janssen, Cycling, 8 February 1990</ref>

==Career achievements==
===Major results===
{{div col|colwidth=25em}}
;1959 
: 2nd [[Ronde van Overijssel]]
;1960
: 1st [[Ronde van Midden-Nederland]]
: 1st [[Ronde van Overijssel]]
;1961
: 1st [[Ronde van Noord-Holland]]
: 3rd [[Ronde van Midden-Nederland]]
: 9th Overall [[Tour de l'Avenir]]
::1st Stage 13
;1962
: 1st [[Züri-Metzgete]]
: 3rd Overall [[Olympia's Tour]]
::1st Stage 4
: 3rd Overall [[Tour de l'Avenir]]
::1st Stage 1, 4 & 7
: 5th [[:fr:Tour des Quatre-Cantons|Tour des Quatre-Cantons]]
: 6th Overall [[Deutschland Tour]]
: 8th [[Dutch National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
: 8th [[Eschborn–Frankfurt|Rund um den Henninger Turm]]
;1963
: [[1963 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stages 2b ([[Team Time Trial|TTT]]) & 7
: 2nd Overall [[Grand Prix du Midi Libre]]
::1st Stage 3 & 5
: 2nd [[1963 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 2nd [[Omloop van Oost-Vlaanderen]]
: 3rd [[1963 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 4th [[Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne]]
: 4th [[Grand Prix du Parisien]] ([[Team Time Trial|TTT]])
: 6th [[Elfstedenronde|Tour des Onze Villes]]
: 7th [[1963 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1963 UCI Road World Championships|UCI World Championships]]
: 7th [[Brabantse Pijl (men's race)|Brabantse Pijl]]
: 8th Overall [[Tour of Belgium]]
::1st Stage 3a
: 9th Overall [[Tour des Alpes-Maritimes|Tour du Var]]
: 9th [[1963 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|Liège–Bastogne–Liège]]
;1964
: 1st [[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px]] [[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1964 UCI Road World Championships|UCI World Championships]]
: 1st [[File:Jersey white.svg|20px]] Overall [[1964 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Points classification
: [[1964 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]]
::1st Stage 7 & 10a
: 2nd [[1964 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 3rd [[Paris–Camembert]]
: 6th Overall [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
: 6th [[1964 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
: 6th [[Brussels Cycling Classic|Paris–Brussels]]
: 7th [[1964 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
: 8th [[1964 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 8th [[1964 Paris–Tours|Paris–Tours]]
;1965
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Tour of the Netherlands|Ronde van Nederland]]
::1st Stage 3
: 1st [[Grand Prix du Parisien]] ([[Team Time Trial|TTT]])
: [[1965 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Points classification
::1st Stage 7a
: 2nd Overall [[Tour du Sud-Est|Circuit du Provençal]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Points classification
::1st Stage 3a
: 2nd [[Critérium des As]]
: 5th Overall [[1965 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 3a
: 5th [[1965 Omloop Het Volk|Omloop Het Volk]]
: 6th [[1965 Milan–San Remo|Milan–San Remo]]
: 7th [[1965 Paris–Tours|Paris–Tours]]
: 9th Overall [[1965 Tour de France|Tour de France]] 
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]] 
::1st Stage 12
: 9th Overall [[Grand Prix du Midi Libre]]
::1st Stage 1 
: 10th [[Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne]]
;1966
: 1st [[Brabantse Pijl (men's race)|Brabantse Pijl]]
: 1st [[Bordeaux–Paris]]
: 2nd Overall [[1966 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Stage 16
: 2nd Overall [[Four Days of Dunkirk]]
: 2nd [[1966 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 4th [[1966 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 4th [[1966 Paris–Tours|Paris–Tours]]
: 5th [[Critérium des As]]
: 6th [[1966 Dwars door België|Dwars door België]]
: 7th [[1966 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
: 9th [[1966 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
;1967
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[1967 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Vuelta a España|Points classification]]
::1st Stage 1b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Paris–Luxembourg]]
::1st Stage 1
: 1st [[1967 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 1st [[Genoa–Nice]]
: [[1967 Volta a Catalunya|Volta a Catalunya]]
::1st Stages 4b, 6 & 7a
: 2nd [[File:Silver medal uci.svg|15px]] [[1967 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|Road race]], [[1967 UCI Road World Championships|UCI World Championships]]
: 2nd [[1967 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
: 3rd Overall [[Tour of Belgium]]
: 3rd [[Trofeo Laigueglia]]
: 3rd [[:fr:Tour de l'Hérault|Tour de l'Hérault]]
: 5th Overall [[1967 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Tour de France|Points classification]] 
::1st Stage 13
: 5th Overall [[Escalada a Montjuïc]]
: 6th [[À travers Lausanne]]
: 8th [[GP Union Dortmund]]
: 9th [[Dutch National Road Race Championships|Road race]], National Road Championships
: 9th [[1967 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]]
: 9th [[1967 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
: 10th [[1967 Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke|Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke]]
;1968
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[1968 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::1st Stage 14 & 22b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
: 1st Stage 5 [[Vuelta a Mallorca]]
: 2nd [[Maël-Pestivien]]
: 3rd [[1968 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]]
: 3rd [[1968 La Flèche Wallonne|La Flèche Wallonne]]
: 4th [[1968 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
: 5th Overall [[1968 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 5
: 6th Overall [[1968 Vuelta a España|Vuelta a España]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] [[Points classification in the Vuelta a España|Points classification]]
::1st Stage 1a & 1b ([[Individual time trial|ITT]])
::Held [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] after Stages 1a–3a
: 7th Overall [[Escalada a Montjuïc]]
: 8th [[1968 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 9th [[1968 Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke|Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke]]
;1969
: 1st [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px]] Overall [[Vuelta a Mallorca]]
::1st Stage 2a
: 1st [[Grand Prix d'Isbergues]]
: [[1969 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]]
::1st [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] Points classification
::1st Stage 2
: 2nd [[Bordeaux–Paris]]
: 6th Overall [[1969 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 5b
: 7th [[1969 Milan–San Remo|Milan–San Remo]]
: 9th Overall [[Four Days of Dunkirk]]
: 9th [[1969 Giro di Lombardia|Giro di Lombardia]]
: 10th Overall [[1969 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
: 10th Overall [[1969 Tour de Suisse|Tour de Suisse]]
::1st [[File:Jersey black.svg|20px]] Points classification
;1970
: 1st Stage 3a [[1970 Tour of the Basque Country|Tour of the Basque Country]]
: 1st Stage 2 [[Grand Prix du Midi Libre]]
: 3rd Overall [[1970 Paris–Nice|Paris–Nice]]
::1st Stage 6
: 7th [[1970 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 7th [[1970 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
: 8th [[1970 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]]
: 9th Overall [[1970 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré|Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré]]
: [[1970 Tour de France|Tour de France]]
::Held [[File:Jersey green.svg|20px]] after Stages 2 & 3a
;1971
: 4th [[1971 Paris–Roubaix|Paris–Roubaix]]
: 6th Overall [[Tour de la Nouvelle-France]]
::1st Stage 5b
: 6th [[1971 Tour of Flanders|Tour of Flanders]]
: 7th [[Bruxelles–Meulebeke]]
: 9th [[1971 Gent–Wevelgem|Gent–Wevelgem]]
;1972
: 1st Stage 2 [[Tour de Luxembourg]]
: 10th [[Eschborn–Frankfurt|Rund um den Henninger Turm]]
{{div col end}}

===Grand Tour general classification results timeline===

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" | [[Grand Tour (cycling)|Grand Tour]]
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
! scope="col" | 1970
! scope="col" | 1971
! scope="col" | 1972
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A gold jersey]] [[List of Vuelta a España general classification winners|Vuelta a España]]
|[[1962 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1963 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1964 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1965 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1966 Vuelta a España|—]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1967 Vuelta a España|'''1''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1968 Vuelta a España|6]]
|[[1969 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1970 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1971 Vuelta a España|—]]
|[[1972 Vuelta a España|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey pink.svg|20px|link=|alt=A pink jersey]] [[General classification in the Giro d'Italia|Giro d'Italia]]
|style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;" colspan=11 |<small>Did not contest during career</small>
|- style="text-align:center;"
! scope="row" | [[File:Jersey yellow.svg|20px|link=|alt=A yellow jersey]] [[General classification in the Tour de France|Tour de France]]
|[[1962 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1963 Tour de France|DNF]]
|[[1964 Tour de France|24]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1965 Tour de France|9]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1966 Tour de France|'''2''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1967 Tour de France|5]]
|style="background:yellow;"|[[1968 Tour de France|'''1''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1969 Tour de France|10]]
|[[1970 Tour de France|26]]
|[[1971 Tour de France|—]]
|[[1972 Tour de France|—]]
|}

===Classics results timeline===
{| class="wikitable"
! scope="col" colspan=19 align=center| Monuments results timeline
|-
! Monument
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
! scope="col" | 1970
! scope="col" | 1971
! scope="col" | 1972
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Milan–San Remo]]
|[[1962 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1963 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1964 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1965 Milan–San Remo|6]]
|[[1966 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|[[1967 Milan–San Remo|32]]
|[[1968 Milan–San Remo|17]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1969 Milan–San Remo|7]]
|[[1970 Milan–San Remo|DNF]]
|[[1971 Milan–San Remo|20]]
|[[1972 Milan–San Remo|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Tour of Flanders (men's race)|Tour of Flanders]]
|[[1962 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1963 Tour of Flanders|13]]
|[[1964 Tour of Flanders|11]]
|[[1965 Tour of Flanders|—]]
|[[1966 Tour of Flanders|44]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1967 Tour of Flanders|9]]
|style="background:#C9AE5D;"|[[1968 Tour of Flanders|'''3''']]
|[[1969 Tour of Flanders|17]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1970 Tour of Flanders|8]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1971 Tour of Flanders|6]]
|[[1972 Tour of Flanders|13]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Paris–Roubaix]]
|[[1962 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|style="background:#C9AE5D;"|[[1963 Paris–Roubaix|'''3''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1964 Paris–Roubaix|8]]
|[[1965 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|style="background:#C0C0C0;"|[[1966 Paris–Roubaix|'''2''']]
|style="background:gold;"|[[1967 Paris–Roubaix|'''1''']]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1968 Paris–Roubaix|8]]
|[[1969 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1970 Paris–Roubaix|7]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1971 Paris–Roubaix|4]]
|[[1972 Paris–Roubaix|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Liège–Bastogne–Liège]]
|[[1962 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1963 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|9]]
|[[1964 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1965 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|11]]
|[[1966 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1967 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1968 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1969 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1970 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1971 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|[[1972 Liège–Bastogne–Liège|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[Giro di Lombardia]]
|[[1962 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1963 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1964 Giro di Lombardia|7]]
|[[1965 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1966 Giro di Lombardia|9]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1967 Giro di Lombardia|9]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1968 Giro di Lombardia|4]]
|style="background:#ddddff;"|[[1969 Giro di Lombardia|9]]
|[[1970 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1971 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|[[1972 Giro di Lombardia|—]]
|-
|}

=== Major championship results timeline ===
{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! scope="col" |
! scope="col" | 1962
! scope="col" | 1963
! scope="col" | 1964
! scope="col" | 1965
! scope="col" | 1966
! scope="col" | 1967
! scope="col" | 1968
! scope="col" | 1969
! scope="col" | 1970
! scope="col" | 1971
! scope="col" | 1972
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[File:Jersey rainbow.svg|20px|link=Classification in the World Championships|alt=Rainbow jersey]] [[UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|World Championships]]
|[[1962 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|31]]
|style="background:#ddf;"|[[1963 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|7]]
|style="background:gold;"|[[1964 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|'''1''']]
|[[1965 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|43]]
|[[1966 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|style="background:#C0C0C0;"|[[1967 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|'''2''']]
|[[1968 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|DNF]]
|[[1969 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|[[1970 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|16]]
|[[1971 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|36]]
|[[1972 UCI Road World Championships – Men's road race|—]]
|- style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#efefef;"|[[File:MaillotHolanda.PNG|20px|link=Classification in the National Championships|alt=National jersey]] [[Dutch National Road Race Championships|National Championships]]
|style="text-align:center; background:#efefef;" colspan=11 |<small>Did not contest during career</small>
|}

{| class="wikitable"
|+ Legend
|-
! scope="row" | —
| Did not compete
|-
! scope="row" | DNF
| [[Did not finish]]
|}

==See also==
* [[List of Dutch Olympic cyclists]]
* [[List of Dutch cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification]]

== Notes ==
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== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category}}
* [http://www.janjanssen.nl/ www.janjanssen.nl]

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