Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon (born 28 January 1972) is a retired

road racing cyclist Road bicycle racing is the cycle sport discipline of road cycling, held primarily on paved roads. Road racing is the most popular professional form of bicycle racing, in terms of numbers of competitors, events and spectators. The two most commo ...

from the

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, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the

1992 Summer Olympics The 1992 Summer Olympics ( es, Juegos Olímpicos de Verano de 1992, ca, Jocs Olímpics d'estiu de 1992), officially known as the Games of the XXV Olympiad ( es, Juegos de la XXV Olimpiada, ca, Jocs de la XXV Olimpíada) and commonly known as ...

Barcelona, Spain Barcelona ( , , ) is a city on the coast of northeastern Spain. It is the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Catalonia, as well as the second most populous municipality of Spain. With a population of 1.6 million within ci ...

. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the

HEW Cyclassics The Hamburg Cyclassics (currently known as the Bemer Cyclassics for sponsorship purposes) is an annual one-day professional and amateur cycling race in and around Hamburg, Germany. Although the route varies, its distance is always around 250 ...

. In 2001 he claimed the overall-victory in the

Ronde van Nederland The Tour of the Netherlands ''(Dutch: Ronde van Nederland)'' was a road bicycle racing stage-race in the Netherlands, founded in 1948. It's an annual race since 1975. Because of the start of the UCI ProTour in 2005, it was replaced by the Eneco ...

. Van Bon retired in 2013.

Major results

;1988 :

U17 Pursuit Champion : MaillotHolanda

U17 Sprint Champion ;1989 : MaillotHolanda

U19 Pursuit Champion : MaillotHolanda

U19 Points Race Champion : MaillotHolanda

U19 Sprint Champion ;1990 : MaillotHolanda

U19 Points Race Champion : MaillotHolanda

U19 Sprint Champion : World U19 Points Race Championship ;1991 : MaillotHolanda

Amateur Points Race Champion : 2nd, National Time Trial Championship : 2nd, National Amateur Pursuit Championship ;1992 : MaillotHolanda

Madison Champion : MaillotHolanda

Amateur Points Race Champion : 2nd, Olympic Games, Points Race : 2nd, National Amateur Pursuit Championship : 2nd, Overall,

Olympia's Tour The Olympia's Tour is a cycling stage race held in the Netherlands. History A.S.C. Olympia was founded in Amsterdam on 27 November 1898. It ran one-day races but wanted a race through all the Netherlands. The first Olympia's Tour was in 1909, ...

:: Winner Prologue ;1993 : 1st, Stages 1 & 7,

Tour de l'Avenir Tour de l'Avenir ( en, Tour of the Future) is a French road bicycle racing stage race, which started in 1961 as a race similar to the Tour de France and over much of the same course but for amateurs and for semi-professionals known as independen ...

;1994 : 1st, Tour de la Haute-Sambre : 2nd, National Points Race Championship ;1995 : 1st, Stage 7, DuPont Tour : 3rd, Overall, PostGirot Open ;1996 : 1st, Overall, Wien-Rabenstein-Gresten-Wien : 1st, Stage 4, DuPont Tour : 1st, Stage 1, Tirreno–Adriatico ;1997 : 1st,

Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen Dwars door West-Vlaanderen is a road bicycle race through the Belgian province of West Flanders. History The race was originally created unter the name Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen (''English'': Tour of the Flemish Ardennes) in 1945 as a one-day ...

: 1st, Amsterdam RAI Derny Race : 1st, Stage 18,

Vuelta a España The Vuelta a España (; en, Tour of Spain) is an annual multi-stage bicycle race primarily held in Spain, while also occasionally making passes through nearby countries. Inspired by the success of the Tour de France and the Giro d'Italia, the ...

UCI Road World Championships The UCI Road World Championships are the annual world championships for bicycle road racing organized by the (UCI). The UCI Road World Championships consist of events for road race and individual time trial, and a mixed team relay. Events ...

, Road race : 9th,

Paris–Tours Paris–Tours is a French one-day classic road cycling race held every October from the outskirts of Paris to the cathedral city of Tours. It is a predominantly flat course through the Chevreuse and Loire valleys; the highest point is 200 ...

;1998 : 1st,

: 1st, Stage 9,

Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's multiple-stage bicycle race primarily held in France, while also occasionally passing through nearby countries. Like the other Grand Tours (the Giro d'Italia and the Vuelta a España), it consists ...

: 2nd, World Cup : 3rd, National Road Race Championship : 4th,

Paris–Roubaix Paris–Roubaix is a one-day professional bicycle road race in northern France, starting north of Paris and finishing in Roubaix, at the border with Belgium. It is one of cycling's oldest races, and is one of the ' Monuments' or classics of th ...

: 8th,

Clásica de San Sebastián The Donostia-Donostia Klasikoa — Clásica San Sebastián-San Sebastián (San Sebastián Classic) is a one-day professional men's bicycle road race in northern Spain that has been held every summer since 1981 in San Sebastián. It is the m ...

;1999 : 1st, Stage 1, Prudential Tour : 6th,

Milan–San Remo Milan–San Remo (in Italian ''Milano-Sanremo''), also called "''The Spring classic''" or "''La Classicissima''", is an annual road cycling race between Milan and Sanremo, in Northwest Italy. With a distance of 298 km (~185.2 miles) it ...

: 6th,

Amstel Gold Race The Amstel Gold Race is an annual one-day classic road cycling race held in the province of Limburg, Netherlands. It traditionally marks the turning point of the spring classics, with the climbers and stage racers replacing the cobbled classic ...

: 8th,

;2000 :

Dutch National Road Race Championship The Dutch National Road Race Championships take place annually, on the weekend prior to the start of the Tour de France The Tour de France () is an annual men's Race stage, multiple-stage cycle sport, bicycle race primarily held in Franc ...

: 1st, Ronde van Midden-Zeeland : 1st, Stage 6,

: 7th,

Tour of Flanders The Tour of Flanders ( nl, Ronde van Vlaanderen), also known as ''De Ronde'' (''"The Tour"''), is an annual road cycling race held in Belgium every spring. The most important cycling race in Flanders, it is part of the UCI World Tour and orga ...

: Peperbus Profspektakel ;2001 : 1st, Overall,

: 1st, First Union Invitational : 2nd,

Gent–Wevelgem Gent–Wevelgem, officially Gent–Wevelgem – In Flanders Fields, is a road cycling race in Belgium, held annually since 1934. It is one of the classic races part of the Flemish Cycling Week, run in late March on the last Sunday before the To ...

;2002 : 1st, Stage 4, Tour de Suisse ;2003 : 1st, Veenendaal–Veenendaal : 1st, Stage 3,

Deutschland Tour The Deutschland Tour (English: ''Tour of Germany'' and sometimes ''Deutschland-Rundfahrt'' in German) is the most important multi-stage road bicycle race in Germany. Initially the race was held in May/June, but from 2005 until 2008 it was moved t ...

;2004 : 1st, Stage 3,

Paris–Nice Paris–Nice is a professional cycling stage race in France, held annually since 1933. Raced over eight days, the race usually starts with a prologue in the Paris region and ends with a final stage either in Nice or on the Col d'Èze overlooki ...

: 1st, Stage 5,

: 4th,

: 7th,

: 10th, World Cup ;2005 : MaillotHolanda

National Road Race Championships : 6th,

: 8th,

;2007 : 1st,

Nokere Koerse Nokere Koerse is a European semi classic single day cycle race held in the Belgian region of Flanders. Since 2005, the race has been organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. Starting in 2016 it was a 1.HC event. The Nokere Koerse was ...

;2012 :3rd National Track Championships, Madison (with Geert Jan Jonkman)

References

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Dutch Olympic Committee
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Bon, Leon Van 1972 births Living people People from Lingewaal Dutch male cyclists Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands Dutch Tour de France stage winners Dutch Vuelta a España stage winners Olympic medalists in cycling Tour de Suisse stage winners UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands Cyclists from Gelderland Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics 20th-century Dutch people 21st-century Dutch people

Major results

See also

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