Английская Википедия:Danny Nelissen

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Шаблон:Short description Шаблон:Infobox cyclist Daniel ("Danny") Wilhelmus Maria Nelissen (born 10 November 1970 in Sittard, Netherlands) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer and former sports commentator at Eurosport. He won the 1995 amateur world championship and was named Dutch Sportsman of the year. He was the nephew of cycling commentator Jean Nelissen.

He started his professional career in 1990 with PDM, for which he won his first professional race, the Grand Prix de Wallonie, in 1992. In 1994, while riding for the Dutch TVM team, he developed heart rhythm impairments and returned to ride at amateur level.

The following year in Colombia he won the amateur world championship. He was the last amateur world champion, the UCI replacing the race with a youth competition in 1996. The triumph lead to Nelissen being voted as 1995 Dutch Sportsman of the year. According to Nelissen, his use of a power meter was key to his win: he claimed that he was one of the few riders "(who) had them and knew what they could do" at that time, alongside Greg LeMond and Jonathan Vaughters. All three riders shared the same coach, Adrie Van Diemen. He prepared for the race by tackling the hardest climb on the finishing circuit in a variety of ways to find the tactic which would enable him to complete the climb fastest, settling on riding it at a steady tempo. During the race he was able to use this tactic to catch up to the other riders in the winning break after being dropped by them at the start of the climb. He made his winning break just over a lap from the finish, attacking on a descent and soloing to the finish.

He was brought into the Rabobank team for two years under manager Jan Raas. In the 1996 Tour de France, he wore the polka dot jersey as leader of the mountains classification for a couple of days. Before 1998, he joined the Danish team, Team Home – Jack & Jones (later named Team CSC).

In January 1999, further heart problems brought his retirement at 28.

He is currently the production manager of Dutch Eurosport.

Danny Nelissen was the first Dutch road bicycle racer to admit the use of doping during the years 1996 and 1997. He repeated his confession on Dutch television (RTL7, interview by Wilfred Genee, 21 Jan. 2013).

Major results

1988

1st Шаблон:Cjersey Overall Giro di Basilicata

1990

1st Prologue Olympia's Tour

1991

5th Grand Prix d'Isbergues

1992

1st Grand Prix de Wallonie

1st Omloop Mandel-Leie-Schelde

1st Stage 6 Vuelta a Aragón

2nd Overall Étoile de Bessèges

3rd Overall Euskal Bizikleta

1st Stage 4

8th Cholet-Pays de Loire

1993

1st Profronde van Heerlen

1st Stage 4 Vuelta Asturias

3rd Veenendaal–Veenendaal

4th Overall Tour de Luxembourg

1994

3rd Kampioenschap van Vlaanderen

3rd GP Stad Zottegem

1995

1st Шаблон:Cjersey Amateur road race, UCI Road World Championships

1st Шаблон:Cjersey Overall Olympia's Tour

1st Stages 8b & 9

1st Stage 3 Tour de Wallonie

2nd Road race, National Road Championships

1996

1st Drielandenomloop

2nd Time trial, National Road Championships

3rd Overall Teleflex Tour

7th Overall Vuelta a Murcia

1998

1st Schaal Sels

3rd Overall Hessen Rundfahrt

1st Stage 3

5th Grote Prijs Jef Scherens

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	1993	1994	1995	1996	1997
A pink jersey Giro d'Italia	—	—	—	—	—
A yellow jersey Tour de France	130	—	—	84	DNF
A red jersey Vuelta a España	—	—	—	—	94

See also

• List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

External links

• Official site Шаблон:Webarchive