Jan Plantaz

Johannes " Jan" Marinus Plantaz ( born December 3, 1930 in Geldrop, Noord-Brabant, † February 10, 1974 in Eindhoven ) was a Dutch racing cyclist.

Plantaz scored his first national success in 1951 as a 20 -year-old amateur road cyclists. It towered third place out in the amateur world road championships and winning the road race Amsterdam - Arnhem- Amsterdam - Tiel. In 1952 he was in the squad of the Netherlands for the Olympic Radwettbewerbe in Helsinki. With eight minutes behind the Olympic champion Plantaz was only 22 After he won a stage at the 1953 Flèche du Sud in Luxembourg and came in overall second place, he moved in 1954 to the camp of professional drivers. At the same time he moved his activities to the track where he Dutch runners-up in the pursuit race in the same year. He participated in 28 six-day races, winning once in 1960, the Six Days of Antwerp. Until his career end Plantaz involved both on road and on track racing and won multiple second and third places. After he had previously signed only one-year contracts with Dutch racing stables, he was bound 1957-1961 the Dutch team Eroba - Vredestein team. In 1961 he drove in the short term for the German team Ruberg League, among others, the German drivers Friedhelm Fischer and Horst Keller Tüller. In 1961, he reached his last notable success with the third place in the Dutch persecution championship. After engagements at the Swiss racing stables Schwab and Tigra he received no new professional contract more.