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Marinus Augustinus Josephus ("René") Pijnen (born September 3, 1946 in Woensdrecht) was a Dutch cyclist. He became Olympic champion of the Team 100k Time Trial in the 1968 Summer Olympics along with Joop Zoetemelk, Fedor den Hertog and Jan Krekels. He was a highly capable track cyclist winning the European Championship in the Madison competition a recordholding (which record he shares with Patrick Sercu) six times over the course of his career and 72 Six-Day Races out of 233 starts, with numerous different riding partners. He also was a time trial expert and won several of these on the Pro Cycling circuit. He also has won 4 stages on the Vuelta a España (with three of those coming in the 1971 Vuelta, where he also held the leader's jersey for 10 days). He retired from professional cycling in 1987
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