Gerben Karstens
Dutch cyclist (1942–2022) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gerben Karstens (14 January 1942 – 8 October 2022)[1] was a Dutch professional racing cyclist, 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. Karstens ranks 6th in all-time stage wins in Vuelta a España history.
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| Full name | Gerben Karstens | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 January 1942 Voorburg, German-occupied Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Died | 8 October 2022 (aged 80) Dongen, Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
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| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Sprinter | ||||||||||||||
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| 1965 | Televizier | ||||||||||||||
| 1966–1967 | Televizier–Batavus | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–1970 | Peugeot–BP–Michelin | ||||||||||||||
| 1971 | Goudsmit–Hoff | ||||||||||||||
| 1972–1973 | Rokado | ||||||||||||||
| 1974 | Bic | ||||||||||||||
| 1975 | Gitane–Campagnolo | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | TI–Raleigh | ||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | De Vleeschmeesters | ||||||||||||||
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Grand Tours
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Medal record
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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.[2] 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.[3] 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.
Karstens died of complications from a stroke on 8 October 2022, at the age of 80.[4]
Major results
- 1962
- 1st Ronde van Limburg
- 1964
- 1st
Team time trial, Olympic Games - 1st Ronde van Noord-Holland
- 1st Ronde van Overijssel
- 10th Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1st Stage 13
- 1965
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Stage 21 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 1 Ronde van Nederland
- 2nd Giro di Lombardia
- 7th Trofeo Baracchi (with Henk Nijdam)
- 8th Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 1966
- 1st
Road race, National Road Championships - 1st Critérium des As
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 3a (TTT), 3b & 9
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 12, 15b & 17
- 1st Stage 6 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 1st Stage 2 Paris–Luxembourg
- 3rd Omloop der Vlaamse Gewesten
- 3rd Heist-op-den-Berg
- 3rd Trofeo Baracchi (with Bart Zoet)
- 5th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 5th Gran Premio di Lugano
- 9th Grand Prix des Nations
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Bruxelles–Meulebeke
- 1967
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 7, 10, 17 (ITT) & 18
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
- 3rd Hoeilaart-Diest-Hoeilaart
- 4th Overall Giro di Sardegna
- 5th Road race, National Road Championships
- 7th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke
- 9th Milan–San Remo
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- Tour de France
- Held
after Stages 4 & 6
- Held
- 1968
- 1st Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 6th Harelbeke–Antwerp–Harelbeke
- 8th Nokere Koerse
- 1969
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Coppa Agostoni
- 4th Trofeo Baracchi (with René Pijnen)
- 5th Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Stage 6a
- 6th Züri-Metzgete
- 9th Road race, UCI Road World Championships
- 1970
- 2nd Milan–San Remo
- 7th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 4
- 7th Trofeo Laigueglia
- 9th Paris–Roubaix
- 10th Bruxelles–Meulebeke
- 1971
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 1b
- Held after Stages 1c, 7 & 8
- 1st Stage 11a Vuelta a España
- 1st stage 6 Tour de Suisse
- 2nd Amstel Gold Race
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 3rd Gent–Wevelgem
- 3rd Paris–Tours
- 3rd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 7th Brabantse Pijl
- 7th GP Ouest-France
- 8th La Flèche Wallonne
- 1972
- 1st Stage 8a Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 4 Giro di Sardegna
- 1st Stage 4b (TTT) Paris–Nice
- 3rd GP Union Dortmund
- 8th Amstel Gold Race
- 8th Rund um den Henninger Turm
- 1973
- 1st Critérium des As
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stages 2, 5, 7 & 12
- Held
after Stages 2 & 3 - Held
after Stages 2 & 5–14
- 1st Stage 5 Giro d'Italia
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 6th Circuit des Onze Villes
- 1974
- 1st Tour du Haut Var
- 1st Stage 16 Vuelta a España
- Setmana Catalana de Ciclisme
- 1st Stages 3 & 4a
- 3rd Critérium des As
- 4th Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 4th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 4th Circuit de l'Aulne
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 6th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 9th Paris–Brussels
- Tour de France
- Held after Stages 5 & 6b
- Held after Stage 2
- Held
- 1975
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Luxembourg
- 3rd Omloop der Zennevallei
- 4th Gent–Wevelgem
- 5th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 5th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 5th Grand Prix de Momignies
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 8th Omloop van de Vlaamse Scheldeboorden
- 9th Le Samyn
- 10th Paris–Roubaix
- 1976
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 5a (TTT), 18c & 22b
- 1st Stage 12 Vuelta a España
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Prologue, Stages 1b, 2a & 2b
- 3rd Critérium des As
- 10th Paris–Brussels
- 1977
- 1st Petegem-aan-de-Leie
- 1st Stage 1 Ronde van Nederland
- 9th Road race, National Road Championships
- 1978
- 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 5th Grand Prix de Fourmies
- 6th Omloop van het Waasland
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
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