Maarten Ducrot
{{short description|Dutch cyclist}}
{{use dmy dates|date=May 2015}}
{{Infobox cyclist
| name = Maarten Ducrot
| image = Maarten-ducrot (cropped).jpg
| caption = Ducrot at the 2009 Tour de France
| full_name = Maarten Ducrot
| nickname =
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1958|4|8|df=y}}
| birth_place = Vlissingen, the Netherlands
| height =
| weight =
| currentteam = Retired
| discipline = Road
| role = Rider
| ridertype =
| amateuryears1 = 1984
| amateurteam1 = Driessen–Transvemij–Colnago
| proyears1 = 1985–1988
| proteam1 = {{UCI team code|TLJ|1985}}
| proyears2 = 1989
| proteam2 = {{UCI team code|Weinmann|1989}}
| proyears3 = 1990–1991
| proteam3 = {{UCI team code|TVM|1990}}
| majorwins = Grand Tours
::1 individual stage (1985)
}}
Maarten Ducrot (born 8 April 1958, in Vlissingen) is a Dutch former professional road bicycle racer, and currently a cycling reporter for the Dutch television.
Biography
Ducrot rode the Tour de France five times, of which he finished four times. In his first Tour in 1985, he won the 9th stage.{{cite web|url=http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4707.html|title=Tour de France - Maarten Ducrot|publisher=Amaury Sport Organisation|accessdate=2 January 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100709031853/http://www.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4707.html|archive-date=9 July 2010|url-status=dead|df=dmy-all}} After the Tour, he was given the combativity award.{{cite web |url=http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/docs/histo2009_06.pdf |title=Guide Historique |author=Jacques Augendre |publisher=Amaury Sport Organisation |year=2009 |accessdate=2 October 2009 |language=French |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090711021351/http://www.letour.fr/2009/TDF/COURSE/docs/histo2009_06.pdf |archivedate=11 July 2009 |url-status=dead |df=dmy-all }} He also competed in the team time trial event at the 1984 Summer Olympics.{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/du/maarten-ducrot-1.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418044706/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/du/maarten-ducrot-1.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=18 April 2020 |title=Maarten Ducrot Olympic Results |accessdate=26 May 2015 |work=Sports Reference}}
Ducrot ended his professional cycling career in 1991, after which he worked as organisation advisor. Since 2004, he is a cycling reporter for the Dutch television program Studio Sport.{{cite web|url=http://www.ducrot.nl/Maartens_Site/Wie.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090722014006/http://www.ducrot.nl/Maartens_Site/Wie.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=22 July 2009 |author=Maarten Ducrot |title=Wie? |accessdate=2 January 2010 }}
In January 2000, on the Dutch TV-show Reporter, he admitted that he had used cortisone and testosterone, as well as Synacthen, "a very bad medicine", and he still regrets using it. Ducrot said he used synacthen in 1982 when he was an amateur.{{cite web|url=http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/2000/jan00/jan1news.shtml |title=www.cyclingnews.presents the latest cycling news and analysis |publisher=Autobus.cyclingnews.com |accessdate=2012-07-18}}[http://autobus.cyclingnews.com/results/2000/jan00/jan1news.shtml Cyclingnews.com]
Major results
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;1982
: 1st 20px Team time trial, UCI Road World Championships
;1983
: 3rd Overall Tour de l'Avenir
;1984
: 2nd Overall Étoile des Espoirs
;1985
::1st Stage 9
::20px Combativity award Stage 1 & Overall
: 1st Profronde van Wateringen
: 5th Overall Giro di Puglia
;1986
: 1st Stage 2 Tour de Romandie
: 1st Stage 7a Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
: 1st Stage 8 Coors Classic
;1987
: 1st Stage 5 (TTT) Tour of the Netherlands
: 8th Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
;1988
: 1st GP de la Liberté Fribourg
: 3rd Overall Vuelta a Andalucía
: 7th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
: 7th Rund um den Henninger Turm
: 9th GP Stad Zottegem
;1989
: 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
: 5th Overall Tour of the Netherlands
;1990
: 1st Profronde van Oostvoorne
: 6th Druivenkoers-Overijse
;1991
: 10th GP Stad Zottegem
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=Grand Tour general classification results timeline=
| class="wikitable" |
| style="background:#EEE;"
! scope="col" | 1985 ! scope="col" | 1986 ! scope="col" | 1987 ! scope="col" | 1988 ! scope="col" | 1989 ! scope="col" | 1990 ! scope="col" | 1991 |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#EFEFEF;"|File:Jersey pink.svg Giro d'Italia |— |— |— |— |— |98 |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#EFEFEF;"|File:Jersey yellow.svg Tour de France |81 |84 |DNF |— |39 |66 |— |
| style="text-align:center;"
| style="text-align:left; background:#EFEFEF;"|File:Jersey red.svg Vuelta a España |— |— |— |— |— |— |113 |
See also
References
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External links
- {{Official website|http://www.ducrot.nl/Maartens_Site/Start.html}} {{dead link|date=February 2019}}
- {{Cycling Archives|8372}}
- [https://histo.letour.fr/HISTO/us/TDF/coureur/4707.html Official Tour de France results for Maarten Ducrot]
{{Tour de France combativity award winners}}
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Category:Dutch Tour de France stage winners
Category:Dutch sportspeople in doping cases
Category:Doping cases in cycling
Category:UCI Road World Champions (elite men)
Category:UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands
Category:Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands
Category:Cyclists at the 1984 Summer Olympics
Category:Sportspeople from Vlissingen
Category:Cyclists from Zeeland
Category:20th-century Dutch sportsmen
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