Robert Slippens

Robert Slippens ( May 3, 1975 in Opmeer ) is a former Dutch cyclist.

Robert Slippens began his career in 1999 at the AXA Cycling Team. In the UCI Track World Championships 2004 he won with Danny Stam in Madison the bronze medal in the scratch he secured silver. A year later he won also with Stam at the UCI Track World Championships in Los Angeles in 2005 the silver medal in Madison. With it, he was very successful in Six Days. In the 2005/2006 season they won together four times, she won a total of eleven together six-day race.

Four times Slippens took part in the Olympic Games: 1996, he competed in the Team Pursuit ( 12 ), 2000, also in the Team Pursuit ( 7 ) and in a two - team approach ( 8 ), 2004 in a two - team approach ( 14 ) and again in 2008 in the team pursuit ( 5 ).

In a road race in Belgium Slippens crashed heavily on 29 August 2006. He suffered a broken collarbone three times, broke ten ribs and pulled to a Lungenanriß. In the following winter he had to sit in the six- day race.

On 3 December 2008 Robert Slippens announced his retirement from professional cycling, as he never fully got from the effects of the heavy crash of 2006. He then became Dutch national coach of the endurance track riders.

Achievements - train

  • Dutch Champion - 1000m time trial
  • Dutch master - individual pursuit
  • Dutch Champion - 1000m time trial
  • Dutch master - individual pursuit
  • Dutch master - Madison ( with Danny Stam )
  • Dutch master - 50km time trial
  • Dutch master - individual pursuit
  • Dutch master - Points race
  • European Champion - Madison ( with Danny Stam )
  • World Cup Sydney - Scratch
  • Dutch master - individual pursuit
  • World Cup Moscow - Scratch
  • Six Days of Bremen ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days of Amsterdam ( with Danny Stam )
  • World Cup Sydney - Scratch
  • Six Days of Amsterdam ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days of Ghent ( with Danny Stam )
  • Dutch master - Madison ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days Rotterdam ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days Rotterdam ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days of Bremen ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days of Berlin ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days of Copenhagen ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days of Amsterdam ( with Danny Stam )
  • Six Days Zuidlaren ( with Danny Stam )

Team

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