Nicolaas ("Nico") Cornelis Maria Verhoeven (born 2 October 1961 in

Berkel-Enschot Berkel-Enschot is a Dutch village, located in the municipality of Tilburg in the North Brabant province which borders Belgium. Geography Berkel-Enschot is located between Tilburg and Oisterwijk. Surrounding towns and hamlets are Brem, Heikant, He ...

North Brabant North Brabant ( nl, Noord-Brabant ; Brabantian: ; ), also unofficially called Brabant, is a province in the south of the Netherlands. It borders the provinces of South Holland and Gelderland to the north, Limburg to the east, Zeeland to the we ...

) is a retired

road bicycle racer 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 common ...

from the

Netherlands ) , anthem = ( en, "William of Nassau") , image_map = , map_caption = , subdivision_type = Sovereign state , subdivision_name = Kingdom of the Netherlands , established_title = Before independence , established_date = Spanish Netherl ...

, who was a professional rider from 1985 to 1995. He represented his native country at the

1984 Summer Olympics The 1984 Summer Olympics (officially the Games of the XXIII Olympiad and also known as Los Angeles 1984) were an international multi-sport event held from July 28 to August 12, 1984, in Los Angeles, California, United States. It marked the secon ...

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, in the individual road race where he didn't finish the race. Verhoeven won the first stage in the

1987 Tour de France The 1987 Tour de France was the 74th edition of the Tour de France, taking place from 1 to 26 July. It consisted of 25 stages over . It was the closest three-way finish in the Tour until the 2007 Tour de France, among the closest overall races i ...

Major results

;1984 : National Amateur Road Race Championship ;1985 :Anderlecht :Bodegraven :Nieuw-Amsterdam :Profronde van Pijnacker :Zes van Rijn & Gouwe ;1986 :Ulvenhout ;1987 :Tiel :

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 ...

: ::Winner stage 1 :

Grote Prijs Stad Zottegem Egmont Cycling Race is a single-day road bicycle race held annually in August in Zottegem, Belgium. Since 2005, the race is organized as a 1.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour The UCI Continental Circuits are a series of road bicycle racing Road ...

;1988 :Tilburg ;1989 :Made ;1990 :Houtem ;1991 :Mijl van Mares ;1992 :

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 ...

:Kelmis ;1995 :Mijl van Mares :Boxmeer

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* * 1961 births Living people Dutch male cyclists Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands Sportspeople from Tilburg Dutch Tour de France stage winners Cyclists from North Brabant {{Netherlands-cycling-bio-1960s-stub

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