Patrick Jonker (born 25 May 1969) is a retired
Australia
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road bicycle racer
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from Dutch and German ancestry. He was a professional rider from 1993 to 2004. Jonker represented Australia twice at the
Summer Olympics
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, in 1992 and 1996.
He was an
Australian Institute of Sport
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scholarship holder. The highlights of his career include wins in the 1997
Route du Sud
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, the 1999
Grand Prix de Wallonie
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and ending his career with a high profile victory in the
2004 Tour Down Under
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. In 2012, he denied any involvement in doping practices at during his stint in the team in the 2000 season following the
Lance Armstrong
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doping affair. He stated that the seven titles in the
Tour de France
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that Armstrong won should be voided since the doping tests were unreliable at that time in his opinion.
Major results
;1993
: 1st Stage 5
Milk Race
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The event dates back to the first British stage races held just after the S ...
: 3rd Overall
Teleflex Tour
The ZLM Tour is a cycling race held over five stages, held in the southern Netherlands and Belgium as a 2.Pro race on the UCI ProSeries
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;1994
: 8th Overall
Critérium du Dauphiné
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:4th Overall Route Du Sud. France
:6th Overall Midi Libre France
:4th National Dutch Road Championships
;1995
: 2nd Overall
Circuit de la Sarthe
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: 3rd
Dutch Food Valley Classic
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;1996
: 2nd Overall
Volta a Catalunya
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It is one of three World Tour stage races in Spain, together with the Vuelta a España and the Tour of th ...
::1st Stage 4 Super Bagneres
: 8th
Olympics time trial
;1997
: 1st Overall
Route du Sud
The Route d'Occitanie is a road bicycle race with 4 stages held annually in Southern France. It was first held in 1977 and since 2005 it has been organised as a 2.1 event on the UCI Europe Tour. It is usually held a week before the Tour de France ...
: 2nd Overall
Regio-Tour
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;1998
: 1st
Dutch National Road Race Championships
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Men
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: 9th Overall
Critérium du Dauphiné
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;1999
: 1st
Grand Prix de Wallonie
The Grand Prix de Wallonie is an annual road bicycle race held annually in Wallonia
Wallonia (; french: Wallonie ), or ; nl, Wallonië ; wa, Waloneye or officially the Walloon Region (french: link=no, Région wallonne),; nl, link=no, ...
: 2nd Overall
Route du Sud
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;2001
: 2nd Overall
Tour du Limousin
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: 3rd
GP Ouest-France
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The race was originally named Grand–Prix de Plouay and, from 19 ...
: 4th
Grand Prix d'Isbergues
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: 5th Overall
Tour Méditerranéen
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: 7th Overall
Tour Down Under
The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI WorldTe ...
;2002
: 3rd Overall
Tour Down Under
The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI WorldTe ...
;2003
: 7th Overall
Tour Down Under
The Tour Down Under (branded as the Santos Tour Down Under under a partnership arrangement) is a cycling race in and around Adelaide, South Australia, and is traditionally the opening event of the UCI World Tour and features all 19 UCI WorldTe ...
;2004
: 1st Overall
Tour Down Under
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Tour de France
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1994
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– DNF 17th stage
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1996
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– 12th
*
1997
File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...
– 62nd
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1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The '' Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for frozen water, in soil in permanently ...
– 34th
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1999
File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...
– 97th
References
External links
*
Patrick Jonker's profile on Cycling Base
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1969 births
Living people
Australian male cyclists
Dutch male cyclists
Cyclists from Amsterdam
Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics
Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
Olympic cyclists of Australia
Dutch emigrants to Australia
Australian Institute of Sport cyclists
Dutch cycling time trial champions