Vincent ter Schure (born 24 October 1979) is a visually impaired Dutch
Paralympic cyclist.
Career
He
represented the Netherlands at the
2016 Summer Paralympics
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, athletes = 4,342
, opening = 7 September
, closing = 18 September
, opened_by = President Michel Temer
, cauldron = Clodoaldo Silva
, events = 528 in 22 sports
, stadium = Maracanã
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held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil together with his sighted pilot
Timo Fransen
Timo Fransen (born 3 June 1987) is a Dutch Paralympic cyclist competing in tandem events for the Netherlands, serving as a sighted pilot for blind cyclist Vincent ter Schure.
Career
Ter Schure and Fransen represented the Netherlands at the 201 ...
and he won one gold medal and two silver medals.
He won the gold medal in the
men's road race B event and the silver medals in the
men's road time trial B and
men's individual pursuit B events.
At the
2017 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships held in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa, he won the bronze medal in the men's 31 km time trial event.
At the
2019 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Apeldoorn, Netherlands, he won the silver medal in the individual pursuit B event.
He also represented the Netherlands at the
2020 Summer Paralympics
The , branded as the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games, was an international multi-sport parasports event held from 24 August to 5 September 2021 in Tokyo, Japan. They were the 16th Summer Paralympic Games as organized by the International Paralym ...
held in Tokyo, Japan. He won two medals: the gold medal in the
men's road race B event and the silver medal in the
men's road time trial B event.
In 2022, he won a silver medal at the
2022 UCI Para-cycling Road World Championships held in
Baie-Comeau, Canada and a bronze medal at the
2022 UCI Para-cycling Track World Championships held in Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, France.
References
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Living people
1979 births
Sportspeople from Amersfoort
Cyclists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Cyclists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2016 Summer Paralympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
Paralympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
Paralympic silver medalists for the Netherlands
Paralympic medalists in cycling
Dutch male cyclists
Paralympic cyclists with a vision impairment
Paralympic cyclists of the Netherlands
Cyclists from Utrecht (province)
21st-century Dutch people
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