1 May 2003(2003-05-01) (aged 80) Sint Willebrord, Netherlands
Team information
Discipline
Road
Role
Rider
Major wins
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)
Tour of Flanders (1953)
Bordeaux–Paris (1950, 1952, 1961)
Medal record
Representing Netherlands
Men's track cycling
World Championships
1949 Copenhagen
Individual pursuit
1950 Rocourt
Individual pursuit
1955 Milan
Individual pursuit
Willem "Wim" 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 as leader of the general classification in the Tour de France of 1951, and for falling into a ravine while wearing it.[2]
^"When Van Est Plunged off the Aubisque and Koblet was King". Felix Lowe of Eurosport. 25 June 2020.
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Willem "Wim" vanEst (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...
cyclist, brother of Nico and Wilm WimvanEst (1923–2003), Dutch cyclist, brother of Nico and Piet Willem Hessels vanEst (1542–1613), Dutch Catholic commentator...
of Defence of the Netherlands Wimvan Es (born 1934), Dutch archaeologist WimvanEst (1923–2003), Dutch cyclist WimVan Grembergen (born 1947), Flemish...
year, Theo Middelkamp won a stage, but it would take until 1951 before WimvanEst was the first Dutch cyclists to wear the yellow jersey. Between 1989...
31st overall. He won the Ronde van Nederland in 1958 and two stages of the race in 1963. His brothers Nico and WimvanEst were also professional cyclists...
his time-trial abilities to win large amounts of time. Dutch cyclist WimvanEst made fame, not only by becoming the first Dutch cyclist to lead the Tour...
won the final stage in the Ronde van Nederland, and in 1949 he lost in the final of the Dutch championship to WimvanEst, after defeating Gerrit Schulte...
Archived (PDF) from the original on 23 September 2019. Amels, Wim (1984). De geschiedenis van de Tour de France 1903–1984 (in Dutch). Valkenswaard, Netherlands:...
only witness to one of the most infamous moments in cycling history. WimVanEst was defending the Yellow Jersey; he was descending the Col d'Aubisque...
group including WimvanEst escaped and gained more than seventeen minutes, which was just enough for VanEst to take over the lead. VanEst was sure to lose...
time! Coppi "set the pace" in drug-taking, said his contemporary WimvanEst. Rik Van Steenbergen said Coppi was "the first I knew who took drugs". That...
Courant. 24 July 1967. Retrieved 23 December 2009. Amels, Wim (1984). De geschiedenis van de Tour de France 1903–1984 (in Dutch). Valkenswaard, Netherlands:...
stages: Freddy Maertens 1978 Eric Vanderaerden 1986 Peter Sagan 2019 Wout Van Aert 2022 Sagan would have did the same in 2014 and in 2018 but in the first...
the Tour the award for the cyclist with the most bad luck was given to WimvanEst. The award for most beloved cyclist was given to Antonin Rolland. The...
American bishop of the Episcopal Church and former US Marine Corps officer. WimvanEst, 80, Dutch racing cyclist. Mohammed Dib, 82, Algerian writer. Blaga Dimitrova...
forbidden in the Netherlands. Jorinus van der Wiel crossed the line in first position, but was demoted for impeding Klaas van Nek. Evert Dolman was disqualified...
The Tour of Flanders (Dutch: Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as De Ronde ("The Tour"), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring....
type of cyclist can try to win Milan-San Remo. Tour of Flanders – the Ronde van Vlaanderen in Dutch, the first of the Cobbled classics, is raced every first...
1929 – 15 August 1994) was a Dutch road bicycle racer. Together with WimvanEst he belonged to the generation that brought great popularity to cycling...
Flanders cycling classic was held on Sunday, 5 April 1953. Dutch rider WimvanEst won the race in a two-man sprint with Désiré Keteleer in Wetteren. 44...
Bonnie Guitar, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 2019) 1923 – WimvanEst, Dutch cyclist (d. 2003) 1924 – Roberts Blossom, American actor (d. 2011)...
Machine van der Mark, Tour Xtra: The Yellow Jersey van der Mark, Tour Xtra: The Green Jersey van der Mark, Tour Xtra: The Polka Dot Jersey van der Mark...
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