Maarten den Bakker

Maarten den Bakker
Personal information
Full name	Maarten Jan den Bakker
Born	26 January 1969 (age 55); Abbenbroek, Netherlands
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Weight	71 kg (157 lb; 11 st 3 lb)
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	All-rounder
Professional teams
1990–1992	PDM–Concorde–Ultima
1992–1997	TVM–Sanyo
1998–2005	Rabobank
2006	Team Milram
2007–2008	Skil–Shimano
2009	Van Vliet–EBH Elshof
Major wins
	National Road Race Championships (1996, 1999)

Maarten Jan den Bakker (born 26 January 1969) is a retired road bicycle racer from the Netherlands, who was a professional rider from 1990 to 2008. He won the Dutch National Road Race Championships twice and he participated in nine Tours de France, completing each of them. In 2008, Den Bakker ended his career.^[1] He also competed in the team time trial at the 1988 Summer Olympics.^[2]

Career achievements

Major results

1989

2nd Overall Olympia's Tour

1990

5th Brussels–Ingooigem

1991

5th Overall Tirreno–Adriatico

1993

2nd Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1st Stage 4

2nd Veenendaal–Veenendaal

1994

1st Nationale Sluitingprijs

2nd Overall Tour de l'Avenir

1st Stage 3

2nd De Brabantse Pijl

9th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía

10th Giro di Lombardia

1995

2nd Grand Prix de Wallonie

2nd Overall Tour of Galicia

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

5th Züri Metzgete

8th Overall Ronde van Nederland

10th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

10th De Brabantse Pijl

1996

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

1st Stage 5 Vuelta a Andalucía

4th De Brabantse Pijl

8th Overall Ronde van Nederland

1997

2nd Brabantse Pijl

4th GP Rik Van Steenbergen

6th Overall Route du Sud

7th GP de Suisse

1998

3rd Paris–Bourges

2nd Amstel Gold Race

4th La Flèche Wallonne

7th Rund um den Henninger Turm

8th Overall GP Tell

1st Stage 2

9th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

10th Overall Ronde van Nederland

1999

1st

Road race, National Road Championships

2nd La Flèche Wallonne

3rd Liège–Bastogne–Liège

4th Amstel Gold Race

6th Gran Premio Bruno Beghelli

6th Delta Profronde

6th Overall Paris–Nice

8th Overall Ronde van Nederland

1st Stage 5

8th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

9th Dwars door Vlaanderen

2000

3rd Time trial, National Road Championships

5th Overall Three Days of Bruges–De Panne

6th Rund um den Henninger Turm

7th GP Ouest-France

8th Liège–Bastogne–Liège

10th Overall Guldensporentweedaagse

2001

7th Omloop Het Volk

8th Overall Ronde van Nederland

10th Luk-Cup Bühl

2003

1st

Time trial, National Road Championships

1st Stage 4 UNIQA Classic

5th Ronde van Midden-Zeeland

6th Overall Tour of Belgium

8th Tour Beneden-Maas

2004

8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne

2005

4th Schaal Sels

2007

1st Profronde van Fryslan

3rd Road race, National Road Championships

7th Nationale Sluitingprijs

10th Overall Tour of Belgium

2008

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Brixia Tour

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Year	Tour de France	Vuelta a España
1992	92nd
1993	91st	71st
1994		Not finished
1995	52nd
1996	64th	40th
1997	64th	Not finished
1998	33rd
1999	84th
2000	49th
2001	75th
2004		84th

Sporting positions
Preceded by Servais Knaven Michael Boogerd	Dutch National Road Race Champion 1996 1999	Succeeded by Michael Boogerd Léon van Bon

References

^ "Den Bakker stopt na achttien jaar plots met wielrennen" (in Dutch). Trouw. 5 September 2008. Retrieved 18 March 2009.
^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Maarten Jan den Bakker Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 6 July 2016.