Piet_de_Wit

Piet de Wit

Piet de Wit

Dutch cyclist (born 1946)

In this Dutch name, the surname is de Wit, not Wit.

Piet de Wit (born 6 March 1946) is a retired cyclist from the Netherlands who won the Amateur UCI Motor-paced World Championships in 1966 and 1967.His sporting career began with DTS Zaandam.[1] He then moved into the professionals category and won another three medals in 1968, 1970 and 1973.[2]

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He was raised with three sisters in a biking family – his parents worked for a bicycle company. After retiring from active competitions in 1974, he established a family-run bicycle shop in his native Wormer, which later expanded into a chain in North Holland. In 1994 he passed the shop management to his business partner Martin Slagt.[3]

References

  1. [1]
    Maaskant, Piet (1967). Wiel aan Wiel. Zwolle: La Rivière & Voorhoeve. p. 154.
  2. [2]
    Piet de Wit. radsportseiten.net
  3. [3]
    Homepage van Piet de Wit. planet.nl (7 May 2003)
Piet de Wit at the World Championships 1967
Marriage of Piet on 24 December 1969
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