Bart Brentjens
Personal information | |
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Full name | Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens |
Nickname | Bartman |
Born | Haelen, the Netherlands | 10 October 1968
Team information | |
Discipline | MTB |
Role | Rider |
Professional teams | |
1991–1996 | American Eagle |
1997–1999 | Mountain-Dew Specialized |
2000–2006 | Giant |
2007–2008 | Dolphin-Trek |
2009–2012 | Milka-Superior |
2013–present | Superior MTB Team |
Major wins | |
UCI Mountain Bike World Cup (1994)
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Medal record |
Bart Jan-Baptist Marie Brentjens (born 10 October 1968 in Haelen) is a Dutch racing cyclist in mountain biking.
Brentjens won a gold medal for mountain biking in the 1996 Summer Olympics, the first to recognize cross-country mountain biking as an event. He followed this with bronze in the 2004 Summer Olympics. Previously he won gold at the 1995 UCI Mountain Bike & Trials World Championships.[1] In 2007 he became 10th time Dutch National champion
Brentjens competed in Men's category of the Absa Cape Epic in 2005, winning 1st place overall with team mate Roel Paulissen. In 2009 he won 2nd place overall, this time competing alongside Chris Jongewaard. Brentjens then began competing in the Master's category. He won the category in both 2012 with Jan Weevers and in 2014 with Abraao Azevedo. He has completed the marathon stage race ten times to date.
Major results
- Gold Medal (Cross Country: 1995)
- Silver Medal (Marathon: 2003,2005)
- Bronze Medal (Cross Country: 1994,2000; Marathon: 2004)
- 1st Overall (1994)
- Absa Cape Epic
- 1st Overall (2005)
- 3rd Overall (2007)
- 2nd Overall (2009)
- 1st Masters category (2012)
- 2nd Masters category (2013)
- 1st Masters category (2014)
- 1st Masters category (2015)
See also
References
- ^ "Keeping that winning feeling, An interview with Bart Brentjens". Cycling News. 2006-05-08. Retrieved 2007-06-12.
- 1968 births
- Living people
- Dutch male cyclists
- Cross-country mountain bikers
- Marathon mountain bikers
- Cyclists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- Cyclists at the 2008 Summer Olympics
- Olympic cyclists of the Netherlands
- Olympic gold medalists for the Netherlands
- Olympic bronze medalists for the Netherlands
- People from Leudal
- Olympic medalists in cycling
- Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics
- UCI Mountain Bike World Champions (men)
- Sportspeople from Limburg (Netherlands)
- Medalists at the 1996 Summer Olympics
- Dutch Olympic medalist stubs
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