CYCLIST

Gerben Karstens

1942 - 2022

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Gerben Karstens (14 January 1942 – 8 October 2022) was a Dutch professional racing cyclist, who won the gold medal in the 100 km team trial at the 1964 Summer Olympics, alongside Bart Zoet, Evert Dolman, and Jan Pieterse. At the same Olympics he finished 27th in the individual road race. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Gerben Karstens has received more than 33,922 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Gerben Karstens is the 95th most popular cyclist (up from 143rd in 2019), the 624th most popular biography from Netherlands (up from 662nd in 2019) and the 8th most popular Dutch Cyclist.

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Among CYCLISTS

Among cyclists, Gerben Karstens ranks 95 out of 1,613Before her are Albert Taillandier, Costante Girardengo, Jacques Dupont, Francisco Cepeda, Paul Chocque, and Jan Raas. After her are Jean Stablinski, Djamolidine Abdoujaparov, Mario Cipollini, Jean-Pierre Monseré, René Pottier, and Jean Aerts.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1942, Gerben Karstens ranks 357Before her are Dennis Meadows, James Soong, Carlos Hathcock, Claude Miller, Werner Teske, and Doğu Perinçek. After her are Ricardo Ezzati Andrello, Gennady Sarafanov, Sterling Morrison, Billy Bremner, Hannelore Elsner, and Pål Tyldum. Among people deceased in 2022, Gerben Karstens ranks 273Before her are Máté Fenyvesi, Henk Groot, Shireen Abu Akleh, Eugene Parker, Javier Lozano Barragán, and Alevtina Kolchina. After her are Eva-Maria Hagen, Bill Nieder, Sacheen Littlefeather, Georgi Atanasov, Dragan Tomić, and Hushang Ebtehaj.

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In Netherlands

Among people born in Netherlands, Gerben Karstens ranks 624 out of 1,646Before her are Henk Groot (1938), Suzanne Manet (1829), Ard Schenk (1944), Maggie MacNeal (1950), Jan Raas (1952), and Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer (1692). After her are Jan de Quay (1901), Bart Bok (1906), Adri van Tiggelen (1957), Willeke van Ammelrooy (1944), Jan Wolkers (1925), and Bartholomeus Breenbergh (1598).

Among CYCLISTS In Netherlands

Among cyclists born in Netherlands, Gerben Karstens ranks 8Before her are Jan Janssen (1940), Adri van der Poel (1959), Hennie Kuiper (1949), Jan de Vries (1944), Arie den Hartog (1941), and Jan Raas (1952). After her are Peter Post (1933), René Pijnen (1946), Gerrie Knetemann (1951), Gerrit Voorting (1923), Bernard Leene (1903), and Harm Ottenbros (1943).