Jelle Nijdam
.jpg) Nijdam in 2013 | |
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Jelle Nijdam |
| Nickname | Snelle Jelle |
| Born | 16 August 1963 Zundert, Netherlands |
| Team information | |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Rider type | Time trialist Classics specialist |
| Professional teams | |
| 1984–1994 | Kwantum–Decosol |
| 1995–1996 | TVM |
| Major wins | |
Grand Tours
| |
Jelle Nijdam (born 16 August 1963) is a Dutch former professional road cyclist. Nijdam turned professional after the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles. He participated in the Tour de France 10 times, winning six stages and wearing the yellow jersey for three days. Nijdam's father, Henk Nijdam, was a professional cyclist from 1962 to 1969, who won the 1962 world amateur track pursuit championship. He also competed in the individual pursuit and team pursuit events at the 1984 Summer Olympics.[1]
Career achievements[edit]
Major results[edit]
- 1984
- Olympia's Tour
- 1st Prologue & Stage 7b (ITT)
- 1985
- 1st
Overall Tour de Luxembourg - 1st Grand Prix Impanis
- Tour of Sweden
- 1st Prologue & Stage 3
- 1st Prologue Tour of Belgium
- 3rd GP Stad Vilvoorde
- 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1986
- 1st Prologue Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT) Tour de Luxembourg
- 3rd Overall Danmark Rundt
- 1st
Young rider classification - 1st Stage 1
- 1st
- 3rd Overall Tour of Sweden
- 1st Prologue
- 7th Ronde van Limburg
- 9th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1987
- 1st
Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Dwars door België
- Tour de France
- 1st Prologue
- Held &
after Prologue - Held after Prologue & Stage 1
- 1st Prologue Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Prologue Danmark Rundt
- 1st Prologue Tour of Sweden
- 1st Prologue Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2nd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 1988
- 1st Amstel Gold Race
- Tour de France
- 1st Stage 5
- Held after Stages 6–7
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta Asturias
- 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 5th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 8th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Prologue & Stage 5 (ITT)
- 1989
- 1st Paris–Tours
- 1st Paris–Brussels
- Tour de France
- 1st Stages 4 & 14
- 1st Stage 1 Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 1 Nissan Classic
- 1st Stage 3 Vuelta Asturias
- 1st Prologue Tour of Sweden
- 2nd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 2nd Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 1st Stage 2
- 5th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 9th Grand Prix de la Libération
- 1990
- 1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Binche-Tournai-Binche
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de France
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta a Murcia
- Four Days of Dunkirk
- 1st Stages 5 & 6 (ITT)
- 2nd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 2nd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 3rd Overall Tour of Sweden
- 1st Prologue & Stage 4
- 3rd Amstel Gold Race
- 4th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 4th Paris–Brussels
- 1991
- 1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stages 1b (ITT) & 3
- 1st Stage 5 Tour de France
- Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stages 2 & 3b (ITT)
- 3rd Circuit des Frontières
- 4th Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 5th Omloop Het Volk
- 6th Le Samyn
- 8th Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 9th Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Prologue
- 9th Amstel Gold Race
- 1992
- 1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Prologue & Stage 2b (ITT)
- 1st Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- Vuelta a España
- 1st Stage 1 (ITT)
- Held after Stages 1–2a
- 1st Stage 7 Vuelta a Aragón
- 3rd Omloop van het Houtland
- 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 5th Gent–Wevelgem
- 5th Baden-Baden (with Frans Maassen)
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 7th E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 8th Grand Prix des Nations
- 8th Veenendaal–Veenendaal
- 9th Amstel Gold Race
- 9th Omloop Het Volk
- 1993
- 1st Stage 3b (ITT) Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 2 Vuelta Asturias
- 1st Prologue Tour DuPont
- 2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 2nd Paris–Brussels
- 3rd E3 Prijs Vlaanderen
- 3rd Grand Prix Eddy Merckx
- 5th Grand Prix des Nations
- 6th Scheldeprijs
- 9th Ronde van Limburg
- 1994
- 1st Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen
- 1st De Kustpijl
- 4th Le Samyn
- 5th Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 5th Scheldeprijs
- 1995
- 1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 5
- 1st Overall Tour de l'Oise
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Dwars door België
- 1st Binche-Tournai-Binche
- 1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Aragón
- 2nd Nationale Sluitingsprijs
- 5th Omloop Het Volk
- 6th Overall Danmark Rundt
- 7th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 7th Overall Étoile de Bessèges
- 7th Grand Prix de Wallonie
- 7th Omloop van het Houtland
- 1996
- 1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland
- 2nd Nokere Koerse
- 3rd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 8th Omloop Het Volk
Grand Tour general classification results timeline[edit]
| Grand Tour | 1985 | 1986 | 1987 | 1988 | 1989 | 1990 | 1991 | 1992 | 1993 | 1994 | 1995 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 Vuelta a España
|
— | — | — | — | — | — | DNF | 103 | — | — | — |
 Giro d'Italia
|
did not contest during his career | ||||||||||
| Tour de France
|
115 | DNF | 124 | 122 | 121 | 127 | 117 | 113 | 129 | — | DNF |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
See also[edit]
- List of Dutch Olympic cyclists
- List of Dutch cyclists who have led the Tour de France general classification
References[edit]
- ^ "Jelle Nijdam Olympic Results". Sports Reference. Archived from the original on 21 November 2015. Retrieved 31 May 2015.