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Full name | Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon | |||||||||||||||||||||
Born |
Asperen, Gelderland, Netherlands |
28 January 1972 |||||||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||
Weight | 70 kg (150 lb) | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Retired | |||||||||||||||||||||
Discipline | Road | |||||||||||||||||||||
Role | Rider | |||||||||||||||||||||
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1994–2000 | WordPerfect–Colnago–Decca | |||||||||||||||||||||
2001 | Mercury | |||||||||||||||||||||
2002–2006 | Lotto–Adecco | |||||||||||||||||||||
2007 | Rabobank | |||||||||||||||||||||
2008–2013 | Trek–Marco Polo | |||||||||||||||||||||
Major wins | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Tour de France, 2 stages Vuelta a España, 1 stage HEW Cyclassics (1998) Ronde van Nederland (2001) |
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Medal record
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Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon (born 28 January 1972) is a retired road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the HEW Cyclassics. In 2001 he claimed the overall-victory in the Ronde van Nederland. Van Bon retired in 2013.