Heleen Hage (born 13 October 1958) is a Dutch former
road racing cyclist
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who was active from 1983 to 1989. In her career, she achieved second place overall 1984
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(women's Tour de France), winning stages 4, 13 and 15. In 1986 she became the Dutch national road cycling champion and in 1987 secured the silver medal in the road race at the
World Championships
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. She also competed in the
women's individual road race at the
1988 Summer Olympics
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She comes from a family of cyclists and is the sister of
Keetie Hage
Cornelia (Keetie) Hage, known by her married name Keetie van Oosten-Hage, (born 21 August 1949) is a Dutch former cyclist from Sint-Maartensdijk, Zeeland. She came from a family of cyclists, sister of Bella Hage, Heleen Hage and Ciska Hage, ...
,
Bella Hage and Ciska Hage, and is an aunt to Jan van Velzen.
See also
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List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
This is a list of all Dutch cyclists who competed at the Summer Olympics. As of 2012 events in four cycling disciplines ( BMX, mountain biking, road cycling, and track cycling) have been contested at the Summer Olympics. Dutch cyclist did not com ...
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1958 births
Living people
Dutch female cyclists
People from Tholen
UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists from Zeeland
Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
Cyclists at the 1988 Summer Olympics
20th-century Dutch women
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