Gert-Jan Theunisse
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| Full name | Gert-Jan Theunisse |
| Born |
14 January 1963 Oss, the Netherlands |
| Team information | |
| Current team | Retired |
| Discipline | Road |
| Role | Rider |
| Professional team(s) | |
| 1984–1986 | Panasonic |
| 1987–1989 | PDM-Concorde |
| 1990 | Panasonic-Sportlife |
| 1991–1992 | TVM Sanyo |
| 1993–1994 | TVM-Bison Kit |
| 1995 | Collstrop-Lystex |
| Major wins | |
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Gert-Jan Theunisse (born 14 January 1963 in Oss) is a Dutch former road bicycle racer. In the 1989 Tour de France, he won the King of the Mountains competition.
Theunisse turned professional in 1984 with the Panasonic cycling team. That year he came third in the Ronde van Nederland and had places of honour in races such as the Grand Prix de Fourmies and the Grand Prix d'Isbergues in 1986. However it was not until 1988 that he achieved great success. In the 1988 Tour de France he challenged his former teammate, Pedro Delgado. However he tested positive for testosterone and received a 10-minute penalty which moved him from fourth to 11th overall. Theunisse returned the following year and won the polka dot jersey and the stage up Alpe d'Huez in the 1989 Tour de France .
In 1990 he also tested positive in the Flèche Wallonne and Bicicleta Vasca. He abandoned the second stage of the 1995 Tirreno–Adriatico and stopped his career after receiving medical advice for heart trouble. He began advising Mario Gutte and then mountain biker Bart Brentjens from late 1995. The following year he drew up a training scheme for Brentjens for the 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games. Brentjens won the Dutch national championship, the world championship, the World Cup, the Tour de France VTT and then gold at the Olympic Games. Brentjens signed with the Specialized Mountain Bike team at the end of 1996 and stipulated in the contract that Theunisse would be team manager.
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