Roy Schuiten

Roy Schuiten ( born December 16, 1950 in Zandvoort, † September 19, 2006 in Praia do Carvoeiro, Portugal ) was a Dutch cyclist.

His greatest successes achieved Schuiten on the web: 1974 and 1975 he became world champion in the individual pursuit. In 1975, he took in Mexico City two attempts to improve the then- held by Eddy Merckx hour record; he failed.

Also in the road race went Schuiten at the start; he twice took part in the Tour de France and four times at the Giro d'Italia. In 1974 he won the British Milk Race and 1975 in Frankfurt, the traditional race Around the Henninger Tower, 1974 and 1975 the Grand Prix des Nations. After his retirement in 1985, he was sports director of the Dutch cycling team PDM Concorde. Later he emigrated to Portugal, where he was active in the hotel and catering industry. Roy Schuiten died in his adopted home of a stomach hemorrhage.

1946 Gerrit Peters | 1947, 1949 Fausto Coppi | 1948 Gerrit Schulte | 1950, 1951 Antonio Bevilacqua | 1952 1953 Sydney Patterson | 1954-56 Guido Messina | 1957-59 Roger Rivière | 1960 1961 Rudi Altig | 1962 Henk Nijdam | 1963 1965, 1966 Leandro Faggin | 1964, 1969 Ferdi Bracke | 1967 Tiemen Groen | 1968, 1970, 1972, 1973 Hugh Porter | 1971 Dirk Baert | 1974, 1975 Roy Schuiten | 1976 Francesco Moser | 1977, 1978 Gregor Brown | 1979 Bert Oosterbosch | 1980 1986 Tony Doyle | 1981, 1982 Alain Bondue | 1983 Steele Bishop | 1984, 1985, 1987 Hans -Henrik Ørsted | 1988 Lech Piasecki | 1989 Colin Sturgess | 1990 Watschislaw Ekimow | 1991 Francis Moreau | 1992 Mike McCarthy | 1993, 1995 Graeme Obree | 1994, 1996 Chris Boardman | 1997, 1998 Philippe Ermenault | 1999, 2005, 2006 Robert Bartko | 2000 Jens Lehmann | 2001 Oleksandr Symonenko | 2002 Bradley McGee | 2003, 2007, 2008 Bradley Wiggins | 2004 Sergi Escobar | 2009, 2010 Taylor Phinney | 2011 Jack Bobridge | 2012, 2013 Michael Hepburn | 2014 Alexander Edmondson

• Cyclists ( Netherlands)
• Track cyclists
• Born in 1950
• Died in 2006
• Man