Erik Breukink
Personal information | |
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Full name | Erik Breukink |
Born | Rheden, the Netherlands | 1 April 1964
Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 70 kg (154 lb; 11 st 0 lb) |
Team information | |
Discipline | Road |
Role | Rider (retired) Team manager |
Rider type | All-rounder |
Professional teams | |
1985 | Skala-Gazelle |
1986–1989 | Panasonic–Merckx–Agu |
1990–1992 | PDM–Concorde–Ultima |
1993–1995 | ONCE |
1996–1997 | Rabobank |
Managerial team | |
2004–2012 | Rabobank |
Major wins | |
Grand Tours
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Erik Breukink (born 1 April 1964) is a former Dutch professional
Biography
Amateur cycling years
Born in
Professional cycling years
Breukink made his debut as a pro in 1986 for the Skala-Gazelle team. He turned out to be a time trial specialist and was a good climber. In his
Sports commentator
After one year as a Public Relations officer for the Rabobank-team, Breukink started as co-commentator for the NOS, covering the Tour de France. In 2002 and 2003, the GP Erik Breukink,[6] a UCI level 2.3 course,[7] was run, with Erik Dekker and Fabian Cancellara as winners,[8] but it was discontinued in 2004 due to financial problems.[9]
Team manager
On 13 January 2004, it was announced that Erik Breukink started as a team manager for the Rabobank team.[10] Thanks to his ONCE-years, Erik Breukink speaks Spanish fluently, which is helpful to communicate with the Spanish cyclists in the Rabobank team and cyclist Denis Menchov, who also speaks Spanish better than English.[11] Since Breukink became team manager, the Rabobank cycling team's successes have included Paris–Tours, Milan–San Remo, the Brabantse Pijl (3×), the Tirreno–Adriatico (2×), the Tour de Romandie, the final classification and three stages in the Vuelta a España, 6 stages in the Tour de France and the mountains classification (2×) in the Tour de France. On, 20 July 2006, Breukink received the "médaille de la fidélité" from the Tour de France organisation, because he had been present in the Tour de France for 20 years. (11 times as rider, 1 time as PR-officer, 5 times as sports commentator and 3 times as team manager).[12]
Career achievements
Major results
- 1982
- 1st Team pursuit, National Track Championships
- 1984
- 3rd Overall Olympia's Tour
- 1st Stage 7a
- 1985
- Olympia's Tour
- 1st Prologue & Stage 7a
- 1st Stage 4b Tour de Liège
- 1986
- 1st Stage 4 Tour de Suisse
- 1987
- 1st Stage 13 Tour de France
- 3rd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 4th Circuit des Frontières
- 6th Nokere Koerse
- 1988
- 1st Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1st Stages 5a & 5b (ITT)
- 1st Overall Critérium International
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 1st Omloop van het Waasland
- Tour de France
- 1st Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 2 (TTT)
- 2nd Overall Giro d'Italia
- 1st Stage 14
- 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1989
- 1st Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 1st Stages 1a & 1b (ITT)
- Tour de Romandie
- 1st Prologue & Stage 4b
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 6b (ITT) Volta a Catalunya
- 4th Overall Giro d'Italia
- 7th Overall Nissan Classic
- 9th Milano–Torino
- 1990
- 1st Nissan Classic
- 1st Stage 2a (ITT)
- 1st Stage 4 (ITT) Tour de Suisse
- 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Stage 7a (ITT) Volta a Catalunya
- 1st Stage 1b (ITT) Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Grand Prix de la Libération (TTT)
- 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 3rd Overall Tour de France
- 3rd Overall Tour DuPont
- 10th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1991
- 1st Overall Tour DuPont
- 1st Prologue & Stage 11
- 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 1st Stage 8 (ITT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- 2nd Grand Prix des Nations
- 3rd Overall Escalada a Montjuïc
- 3rd Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 5th Overall Critérium International
- 1992
- 1st Giro del Piemonte
- Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Prologue & 7 (ITT)
- 1st Stage 7 (ITT) Vuelta a España
- 2nd Overall Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 6th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 7th Overall Tour de France
- 7th Overall Tour de Suisse
- 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1993
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
- 1st Overall Critérium International
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT)
- 1st Overall Vuelta a Asturias
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 2 Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
- 4th La Flèche Wallonne
- 5th Overall Paris–Nice
- 7th Overall Vuelta a España
- 8th Overall Tour of the Basque Country
- 1994
- 4th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 8th Overall Volta a Catalunya
- 8th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1995
- 1st Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Overall Vuelta a Murcia
- 2nd Subida a Urkiola
- 4th Overall Critérium International
- 5th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 6th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1996
- 1st Druivenkoers Overijse
- 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 7th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1997
- National Road Championships
- 1st Time trial
- 2nd Road race
- 3rd Overall Tour de Luxembourg
- 5th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 5th Grand Prix des Nations
- 7th Time trial, UCI Road World Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
Grand Tour | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 | 1996 | 1997 |
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Giro d'Italia | 71 | 3 | 2 | 4 | — | — | — | — | — | 59 | — | — |
Tour de France | — | 21 | 12 | DNF | 3 | DNF | 7 | DNF | 29 | 20 | 34 | 52 |
Vuelta a España | — | — | — | — | — | — | 27 | 7 | 19 | — | — | — |
See also
- List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
- List of Dutch cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification
References
- Cycling News. 8 September 2012. Retrieved 3 January 2013.
- ^ "tourdefrance.nl biography" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 18 July 2011. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ Official results 1984 Olympic Games Archived 30 August 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Terug naar ... 16 juli 1991(in Dutch)
- ^ Dutch Drugs Scandal – Part 6
- ^ Official site GP Erik Breukink (in Dutch) Archived 16 June 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ UCI 2002 road calendar
- ^ GP Erik Breukink final classifications Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ GP Breukink afgelast (in Dutch)
- ^ "Erik Breukink ploegleider Rabobank" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
- ^ Team information(in Dutch)
- ^ "Twintig Tours met Breukink" (in Dutch). Archived from the original on 16 October 2012. Retrieved 21 July 2010.
External links
- Erik Breukink at Cycling Archives
- Profile at official rabobank site at the Wayback Machine (archived 8 February 2008) (in Dutch)