Gerrit Voorting
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Gerardus "Gerrit" Petrus Voorting (18 January 1923 – 30 January 2015) was a Dutch road cyclist who was active between 1947 and 1960. As an amateur he won the silver medal in the individual road race at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London. In his professional career Voorting won two Tour de France stages and wore the yellow jersey for 4 days.[1] Voorting died on 30 January 2015 in his home in Heemskerk at the age of 92,[2][3] within a week of two other members of the Dutch men's team pursuit squad, Henk Faanhof and Joop Harmans.[4] He was the elder brother of Olympic cyclist Adrie Voorting.[5]
Major results
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- 1948
- Silver medal individual road race Olympic Games
- 1952
- Den Bosch
- 6th stage Ronde van Nederland
- Terneuzen
- 1953
- Machelen
- 1953 Tour de France:
- Winner 4th stage
- 1954
- Acht van Chaam
- Vlissingen
- 1955
- Maastricht
- Zandvoort
- 1956
- Kampen
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- Oostende
- Tour de France:
- Wearing yellow jersey for one day
- 1957
- Made
- Ronde van Nederland:
- Winner stage 7 and 8
- Roosendaal
- 1958
- Grote 1-Mei Prijs
- Lummen
- Ninove
- Ronde van Nederland:
- Winner 2nd stage
- Tour de France:
- Winner 2nd stage
- Wearing yellow jersey for three days
- 1959
- Made
- Ninove
- Roosendaal
See also
- List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
- List of Dutch cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification
References
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- ↑ Gerrit Voorting. cyclingarchives.com
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- ↑ Obituary Gerrit Voorting. rvmn.nl (4 February 2015)
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- ↑ Gerrit Voorting Template:Webarchive. sports-reference.com
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External links
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- 1923 births
- 2015 deaths
- Dutch male cyclists
- Cyclists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
- Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
- Sportspeople from Velsen
- Dutch Tour de France stage winners
- Olympic silver medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 1948 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists from North Holland
- Dutch track cyclists
- 20th-century Dutch sportsmen
- 21st-century Dutch people