Gerben Karstens

Gerben Karstens ( Leiden , January 14 1942 ) was a Dutch professional cyclist in the period 1965-1980.

As an amateur he won with Evert Dolman , Jan Pieterse and Bart Zoet the gold medal at the 1964 Olympic Games on the part 100km team time trial .

Karstens was a sprinter and won stages in all three Grand Tours (six in the Tour de France, one in the Tour of Italy and fourteen in the Tour of Spain ). The only other Dutch who performed it were Jeroen Blijlevens , Erik Breukink and Jean-Paul van Poppel .

In 1974 he wore the yellow jersey for two days in the Tour de France . In the fourth stage he finished second. He forgot to go alone to the doping and was a ten minute penalty, making his third place lost in the general classification. [1] A day later was overturned that sentence and thanks to bonus seconds won Karstens in the fifth stage, he took the yellow jersey from Eddy Merckx . [2]

He was a significant figure in the peloton because of his jokes. He would have ever gedemarreerd from the pack, subsequently hidden in the bushes to join the back of the peloton again, while the peloton but kept looking for the 'escaped' Karstens. To his clownish behavior he was named in the squad 'the clown'. Other nicknames were "the notary son 'and' Karst ', in French' Le Karst.

Karstens was skater and member of the core group at the time of Rudie Liebrechts . Karstens focused after cycling to the sport of golf and was a member of the Oosterhoutse Golf Club .



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[verbergen]  *1 Key victories  ==Major victories [  edit ] ==
 * 2 Main place of honor
 * 3 results in major competitions
 * 4 Teams
 * 5 Trivia
 * 1962
 * Ronde van Limburg


 * 1964
 * Ronde van Overijssel
 * Noord-Holland round
 * 13th stage Tour de l'Avenir


 * 1965
 * Paris-Tours
 * 1st stage of Tour of Netherlands
 * 21st stage of Tour de France


 * 1966
 * Dutch road race champion
 * 2nd stage of Paris-Luxembourg
 * 12th stage Tour of Spain
 * Part B 15th stage Tour of Spain
 * 17th stage Tour of Spain
 * 6th stage Dauphine Libere
 * Stage 3 Part B Tour de France
 * 9th stage of Tour de France
 * Criterion of Aces


 * 1967
 * 4th stage Tour of Switzerland
 * 7th stage Tour of Spain
 * Part B 10th stage Tour of Spain
 * 17th stage Tour of Spain
 * 18th stage Tour of Spain


 * 1968
 * GP Fourmies


 * 1969
 * 6th Stage Four Days of Dunkirk


 * 1970
 * 4th stage Tour of Belgium


 * 1971
 * 7th stage Tour of Switzerland
 * Part B 11th stage Tour of Spain
 * Stage 1 Part B Tour de France


 * 1972
 * 4th stage Tour of Sardinia
 * 8th stage Part A Tour of Switzerland


 * 1973
 * Tour of the Waasland
 * 5th stage Tour of Italy
 * 2nd stage of Tour of Spain
 * 5th stage Tour of Spain
 * 7th stage Tour of Spain
 * 12th stage Tour of Spain
 * Criterion of Aces


 * 1974
 * 3rd stage Catalan Week
 * Stage 4 Part A Catalan Week
 * 16th stage Tour of Spain
 * Tour of the Haut-Var


 * 1975
 * 4th stage Tour of Luxembourg


 * 1976
 * Prologue Ruta del Sol
 * 1st stage of Ruta del Sol
 * Stage 2 Part A Ruta del Sol
 * Stage 2 Part B Ruta del Sol
 * Part C 18th stage Tour de France
 * 22 Part B stage Tour de France
 * 12th stage Tour of Spain


 * 1977
 * 1st stage Tour of Netherlands

==Main place of honor [  edit ] ==
 * 1965
 * 2nd in the Tour of Lombardy


 * 1966
 * 3rd in the Trofeo Baracchi (with Bart Sweet )
 * 5th in Rundum den Henninger Turm
 * 5th in the Grand Prix de Lugano


 * 1967
 * 4th in the Tour of Sardinia
 * 5th in the National Championships road race


 * 1969
 * 3rd in the National Championship road race
 * 4th in the Trofeo Baracchi (with René Pains )
 * 5th in the Four Days of Dunkirk


 * 1970
 * 2nd in Milan-San Remo


 * 1971
 * 2nd in the Amstel Gold Race
 * 3rd in the National Championship road race
 * 3rd in Gent-Wevelgem
 * 3rd in Paris-Tours


 * 1973
 * 3rd in the National Championship road race


 * 1974
 * 4th in the Tour Méditerranéen
 * 4th in the GP Fourmies


 * 1975
 * 4th in Gent-Wevelgem
 * 5th in the Tour of Netherlands


 * 1976
 * 3rd in the Ruta del Sol


 * 1976
 * 3rd in the Tour of Luxembourg
 * 5th in the GP Fourmies

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 * Of this driver is known to him to speak no meter uphill could drive. To grand tours like the Tour de France, he went exclusively to the flat stages before and after the mountains to win one or more rides in the sprint. In the mountains the trouble started. He invariably ended up in the rear ranks, which were formed by all those who in one way or another about that terrible cols had to see to wring it. This group was often referred to as "doves". But when a reporter "The Karst" asked a question in which the former spoke of the "doves", responded "Leiden notary son" little bits "We are not birds, we are drivers."
 * Twice the Karst disqualified after he had won a victory. This happened to him in 1969 in the Tour of Lombardy and in 1974 in Paris-Tours . In both cases, he was suspected of doping. In the latter case he had forgotten to have himself.