Maarten Ducrot Explained
Maarten Ducrot (born 8 April 1958, in Vlissingen) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, and currently a cycling reporter for the Dutch television.
Biography
Ducrot rode the Tour de France five times, of which he finished four times. In his first Tour in 1985, he won the 9th stage.[1] After the Tour, he was given the combativity award.[2] He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[3]
Ducrot ended his professional cycling career in 1991, after which he worked as organisation advisor. Since 2004, he is a cycling reporter for the Dutch television program Studio Sport.[4]
In January 2000, on the Dutch TV-show Reporter, he admitted that he had used cortisone and testosterone, as well as Synacthen, "a very bad medicine", and he still regrets using it. Ducrot said he used synacthen in 1982 when he was an amateur.[5] [6]
Major results
- 1982
1st Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
- 1983
3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
- 1984
2nd Overall Étoile des Espoirs
- 1985
Tour de France
1st Stage 9
Combativity award Stage 1 & Overall
1st Profronde van Wateringen
5th Overall Giro di Puglia
- 1986
1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie
1st Stage 7a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
1st Stage 8 Coors Classic
- 1987
1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of the Netherlands
8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1988
1st GP de la Liberté Fribourg
3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
7th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
9th GP Stad Zottegem
- 1989
3rd Road race, National Road Championships
5th Overall Tour of the Netherlands
- 1990
1st Profronde van Oostvoorne
6th Druivenkoers-Overijse
- 1991
10th GP Stad ZottegemGrand Tour general classification results timeline
See also
External links
Notes and References
- Web site: Tour de France - Maarten Ducrot. Amaury Sport Organisation. 2 January 2010. https://web.archive.org/web/20100709031853/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4707.html. 9 July 2010. dead. dmy-all.
- Web site: Guide Historique . PDF . . . 2009 . 2 October 2009 . French . https://web.archive.org/web/20090711021351/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/docs/histo2009_06.pdf . 11 July 2009 . dead . dmy-all .
- Web site: Maarten Ducrot Olympic Results . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418044706/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/du/maarten-ducrot-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 26 May 2015 . Sports Reference.
- Web site: Wie? . https://web.archive.org/web/20090722014006/http://www.ducrot.nl/Maartens_Site/Wie.html . dead . 22 July 2009 . Maarten Ducrot . 2 January 2010 .
- Web site: www.cyclingnews.presents the latest cycling news and analysis . Autobus.cyclingnews.com . 2012-07-18.
- http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/2000/jan00/jan1news.shtml Cyclingnews.com
