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Gerrie Knetemann

Personal information

Full name

Gerard Friedrich Knetemann

Nickname

de Kneet

Born

6 March 1951
Amsterdam, the Netherlands

Died

2 November 2004 (aged 53)
Bergen, the Netherlands

Team information

Discipline

Road

Role

Rider

Major wins

Grand Tours

Tour de France

10 individual stages

Stage Races

Paris–Nice (1978)

Ronde van Nederland (1976, 1980, 1981, 1986)

Tour Méditerranéen (1978, 1980, 1983)

Vuelta a Andalucía (1976)

Single-Day Races and Classics

World Road Race Champion (1978)

Amstel Gold Race (1974, 1985)

Rund um den Henninger-Turm (1977)

Medal record

Men's road bicycle racing

Representing the Netherlands
World Championships
	1978 Nürburgring	Elite Men's Road Race

Gerard Friedrich "Gerrie" Knetemann (6 March 1951 in Amsterdam – 2 November 2004 in Bergen, North Holland) was a Dutch road bicycle racer who won the 1978 World Championship. He wore the Yellow Jersey early in each Tour de France for four consecutive years between 1977 and 1980.

A four-time winner of the Ronde van Nederland, he also rode the Tour de France 11 times between 1974 and 1987, winning 10 stages, a Dutch record equalled only by Jan Raas and Joop Zoetemelk. Knetemann won 127 races as a professional.

Knetemann maintained an Amsterdam accent and a sharp sense of humour that made him a favourite with reporters and earned him television and radio appearances. His best year in the Tour de France was 1978, when he led from the sixth stage. Although he lost the leader's yellow jersey two days later, he won the stage into Lausanne and then the final stage on the Champs Elysées in Paris.

Together with Raas and his TI-Raleigh teammates Knetemann played a pivotal role in the victory of Zoetemelk in the 1980 Tour de France, one of the most dominating team performances in Tour de France history in which the team won twelve stages.

His career dwindled after a crash in Dwars door België in Belgium in March 1983.

Recovery took months and, although he did again ride the Tour de France, there was not much left of the once sparkling star. Knetemann did however win the Amstel Gold Race in 1985. He retired from racing in 1991 and became Dutch team selector.

Knetemann died while riding his bike. He collapsed from a heart attack with friends in De Schoorlse Duinen in Schoorl (gem. Bergen)

His wife, Gre Donker, was also a racing cyclist. They had a son and two daughters. Their daughter Roxane, born in 1987, was a professional cyclist as well.

Teams

Knetemann raced for several different sponsored teams in his career, one of the most famous was the TI–Raleigh team, managed by Peter Post, with which he won the 1978 UCI Road World Championships.

Career achievements

Major results

1971

1st Stage 3 Olympia's Tour

1974

1st Amstel Gold Race

1975

1st Stage 12 Tour de France
1st Stage 3 Tour de Romandie
2nd Overall Tour de Picardie
- 1st Prologue

1976

1st Stage 5a (TTT) Tour de France
1st Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
- 1st Stage 1a
- 1st Stage 7a
1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 4
1st Trofeo Zumaquero

1977

1st Stage 19 Tour de France
1st Stage 21 Tour de France
1st Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
1st Stage 3 Paris–Nice
1st Stage 6b Paris–Nice
1st Eschborn-Frankfurt City Loop

1978

World Road Race Champion
1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 18 Tour de France
1st Stage 22 Tour de France
1st Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Stage 2
- 1st Stage 7b
1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 4b
1st Stage 5a Ronde van Nederland
1st Prologue Tour de Suisse
1st Grand Prix Pino Cerami
1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland

1979

1st Prologue Tour de France
1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 8 (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 22 Tour de France
2nd Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 1
3rd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Prologue
1st Prologue Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 3a Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 6 Tour de Suisse
1st Stage 9b Tour de Suisse

1980

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 7a (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 12 Tour de France
1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Prologue (victory shared with Jan Raas)
3rd Overall Paris–Nice
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Stage 7b
1st Overall Tour of Belgium
1st Ronde van Midden-Zeeland

1981

1st Stage 1b (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 4 (TTT) Tour de France
1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 2b
1st Stage 5b Tour de Romandie
1st Nokere Koerse

1982

1st Stage 4 Tour de France
1st Stage 9a (TTT) Tour de France
1st Stage 11 Tour de France
2nd Overall Tirreno–Adriatico
- 1st Prologue
- 1st Stage 4
1st Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 1st Stage 1b

1983

1st Overall Tour Méditerranéen
- 1st Stage 4b
GP de Costières du Gard

1984

1st Prologue Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Stage 5b Vuelta a Andalucía
1st Prologue Volta a la Comunitat Valenciana
Grand Prix Pino Cerami

1985

1st Amstel Gold Race

1986

1st Overall Ronde van Nederland
- 1st Stage 4b
1st Stage 2 Tour de Suisse

1987

1st Overall Tour of Sweden

External links

Knetemann's death on Cyclingnews.com
Gerrie Knetemann at Cycling Archives (archived)

Awards
Preceded by Hennie Kuiper	Dutch Sportsman of the Year 1978	Succeeded by Jan Raas

v t e UCI Road World Champions – Men's road race
1927–1938	1927: Alfredo Binda (ITA) 1928: Georges Ronsse (BEL) 1929: Georges Ronsse (BEL) 1930: Alfredo Binda (ITA) 1931: Learco Guerra (ITA) 1932: Alfredo Binda (ITA) 1933: Georges Speicher (FRA) 1934: Karel Kaers (BEL) 1935: Jean Aerts (BEL) 1936: Antonin Magne (FRA) 1937: Éloi Meulenberg (BEL) 1938: Marcel Kint (BEL)
1946–1959	1946: Hans Knecht (SUI) 1947: Theo Middelkamp (NED) 1948: Briek Schotte (BEL) 1949: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) 1950: Briek Schotte (BEL) 1951: Ferdinand Kübler (SUI) 1952: Heinz Müller (FRG) 1953: Fausto Coppi (ITA) 1954: Louison Bobet (FRA) 1955: Stan Ockers (BEL) 1956: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) 1957: Rik Van Steenbergen (BEL) 1958: Ercole Baldini (ITA) 1959: André Darrigade (FRA)
1960–1979	1960: Rik Van Looy (BEL) 1961: Rik Van Looy (BEL) 1962: Jean Stablinski (FRA) 1963: Benoni Beheyt (BEL) 1964: Jan Janssen (NED) 1965: Tom Simpson (GBR) 1966: Rudi Altig (FRG) 1967: Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1968: Vittorio Adorni (ITA) 1969: Harm Ottenbros (NED) 1970: Jean-Pierre Monseré (BEL) 1971: Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1972: Marino Basso (ITA) 1973: Felice Gimondi (ITA) 1974: Eddy Merckx (BEL) 1975: Hennie Kuiper (NED) 1976: Freddy Maertens (BEL) 1977: Francesco Moser (ITA) 1978: Gerrie Knetemann (NED) 1979: Jan Raas (NED)
1980–1999	1980: Bernard Hinault (FRA) 1981: Freddy Maertens (BEL) 1982: Giuseppe Saronni (ITA) 1983: Greg LeMond (USA) 1984: Claude Criquielion (BEL) 1985: Joop Zoetemelk (NED) 1986: Moreno Argentin (ITA) 1987: Stephen Roche (IRL) 1988: Maurizio Fondriest (ITA) 1989: Greg LeMond (USA) 1990: Rudy Dhaenens (BEL) 1991: Gianni Bugno (ITA) 1992: Gianni Bugno (ITA) 1993: Lance Armstrong (USA) 1994: Luc Leblanc (FRA) 1995: Abraham Olano (ESP) 1996: Johan Museeuw (BEL) 1997: Laurent Brochard (FRA) 1998: Oscar Camenzind (SUI) 1999: Óscar Freire (ESP)
2000–2019	2000: Romāns Vainšteins (LAT) 2001: Óscar Freire (ESP) 2002: Mario Cipollini (ITA) 2003: Igor Astarloa (ESP) 2004: Óscar Freire (ESP) 2005: Tom Boonen (BEL) 2006: Paolo Bettini (ITA) 2007: Paolo Bettini (ITA) 2008: Alessandro Ballan (ITA) 2009: Cadel Evans (AUS) 2010: Thor Hushovd (NOR) 2011: Mark Cavendish (GBR) 2012: Philippe Gilbert (BEL) 2013: Rui Costa (POR) 2014: Michał Kwiatkowski (POL) 2015: Peter Sagan (SVK) 2016: Peter Sagan (SVK) 2017: Peter Sagan (SVK) 2018: Alejandro Valverde (ESP) 2019: Mads Pedersen (DEN)
2020–2039	2020: Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) 2021: Julian Alaphilippe (FRA) 2022: Remco Evenepoel (BEL) 2023: Mathieu van der Poel (NED) 2024: Tadej Pogačar (SLO)