Wim Van Est
Grand Tours
- Tour de France
- 3 Individual Stages
- 1 Team Time Trial
- Giro d'Italia
- 1 Individual Stage
Stage Races
- Ronde van Nederland (1952, 1954)
Single-Day Races and Classics
- Dutch Road Race Champion ::(1956, 1957)
- Dutch Individual Pursuit Champion
- (1949, 1952, 1953, 1955)
- Ronde van Vlaanderen (1953)
- Bordeaux–Paris (1950, 1952, 1961)
| Competitor for Netherlands | ||
|---|---|---|
| Track cycling | ||
| World Championships | ||
| Bronze | 1949 Copenhagen | Individual pursuit |
| Silver | 1950 Rocourt | Individual pursuit |
| Bronze | 1955 Milan | Individual pursuit |
4 March 2012
Willem van Est (25 March 1923 – 1 May 2003) was a Dutch racing cyclist.
He is best known for being the first Dutch cyclist to wear the yellow jersey in the Tour de France of 1951, and for falling into a ravine while wearing it.
Famous quotes containing the words van and/or est:
“To call a posit a posit is not to patronize it. A posit can be unavoidable except at the cost of other no less artificial expedients. Everything to which we concede existence is a posit from the standpoint of a description of the theory-building process, and simultaneously real from the standpoint of the theory that is being built.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)
“To be is to be perceived [Esse est percipi].”
—George Berkeley (1685–1753)