Bert Oosterbosch
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| Full name | Bert Oosterbosch | ||||||||||||||||||
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July 30, 1957 Eindhoven, the Netherlands |
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| Died | August 18, 1989 (aged 32) Lekkerkerk, the Netherlands |
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| Discipline | Road and track | ||||||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||||||
| Rider type | Time triallist | ||||||||||||||||||
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| 1979–1981 | TI–Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1982 | DAF Trucks | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1983 | TI–Raleigh | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1986 | Panasonic | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1987 | Panasonic-Isostar | ||||||||||||||||||
| 1988 | TVM-Van Schilt | ||||||||||||||||||
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| World Champion professional individual pursuit 6 Tour de France stages Ronde van Nederland |
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Bert Oosterbosch (born Eindhoven, July 30, 1957, died Lekkerkerk, August 18, 1989) was a Dutch racing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successful track and road racer.
In 1978 he won the World amateur team time trial championship (with Jan van Houwelingen, Bart van Est and Guus Bierings). A year later, he turned professional for the TI–Raleighteam of Peter Post. That year he won the World Professional individual pursuit title beating Francesco Moser in the final. He was also three times Dutch pursuit champion.
As a professional Oosterbosch was especially successful in time trials; he won 14 stage race prologues, including three in the Tour de France. He won three other stages of the Tour: his victory in Bordeaux in 1983 was the one hundredth Dutch stage win in the Tour.
Oosterbosch also won stages in the Vuelta a España and the Tour de Suisse. In 1982 he won the Ronde van Nederland.
Oosterbosch suffered poor health on occasions, twice contracting meningitis. In 1988 he was hit by severe knee trouble and had to end his professional career. He returned as an amateur and on August 13, 1989 he won a race. Five days later he died, aged thirty-two years old, after an acute cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Roman Catholic Cemetery Our Lady of Lourdes in Eindhoven. His tombstone depicts cycle racing.
Bert Oosterbosch was married to Marian Bik. The couple had two daughters: Nathalie and Joyce.
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