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Bert Oosterbosch

Personal information
Full name	Bert Oosterbosch
Date of birth	July 30, 1957(1957-07-30)
Date of death	August 18, 1989 (aged 32)
Country	Netherlands
Team information
Current team	Deceased
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Time triallist
Professional team(s)
1979–1981 1982 1983 1984–1986 1987 1988	TI-Raleigh DAF Trucks TI-Raleigh Panasonic Panasonic-Isostar TVM-Van Schilt
Major wins
World Champion professional individual pursuit 6 Tour de France stages Ronde van Nederland
Infobox last updated on:
April 8, 2008

Medal record
Competitor for the  Netherlands
Cycling
World Championships
Gold	1978 Köln	Team time trial
Gold	1979 Amsterdam	Professional pursuit

Bert Oosterbosch (born Eindhoven, July 30, 1957, died Lekkerkerk, August 18, 1989) was a Dutch racing cyclist. Oosterbosch was a successful track and road racer.

Contents 1 Early career 2 Road success 3 Poor health 4 Allegations of doping 5 Palmares 6 External links 7 References

[edit] Early career

In 1978 he won the World amateur team time trial championship (with Jan van Houwelingen, Bart van Est and Guus Bierings). A year later, he turned professional for the TI-Raleigh team of Peter Post. That year he won the World Professional individual pursuit title beating Francesco Moser in the final. He was also three times Dutch pursuit champion.

[edit] Road success

As a professional Oosterbosch was especially successful in time trials; he won 14 stage race prologues, including three in the Tour de France. He won three other stages of the Tour: his victory in Bordeaux in 1983 was the one hundredth Dutch stage win in the Tour.

Oosterbosch also won stages in the Vuelta a España and the Tour de Suisse. In 1982 he won the Ronde van Nederland.

[edit] Poor health

Oosterbosch suffered poor health on occasions, twice contracting meningitis. In 1988 he was hit by severe knee trouble and had to end his professional career. He returned as an amateur and on August 13, 1989 he won a race. Five days later he died, aged thirty-two years old, after an acute cardiac arrest. He was buried at the Roman Catholic Cemetery Our Lady of Lourdes to the in Eindhoven. His tombstone depicts cycle racing.

Bert Oosterbosch was married to Marian Bik. The couple has two daughters: Nathalie and Joyce.

[edit] Allegations of doping

It has been suggested that Oosterbosch's early death was caused by EPO use, but this is disputed^[1].

Willy Voet, the disgraced former soigneur, talks about Oosterbosch riding the 1982 Grand Prix des Nations. Oosterbosch came in 18th at more than 2.5 minutes behind the winner Bernard Hinault even though he was expected to do well. Voet said: "Oosterbosch was flat from the start due to the Synacten he had taken. The drugs initially blocked his ability to work hard. An hour after the injection it started working as planned and his tempo increased."^[2].

[edit] Palmares

[edit] External links

• Oosterbosch at veloarchive.com
• Oosterbosch at cyclingwebsite.net

[edit] References

1. ^ Lactate Threshold Training By Peter Janssen, Peter G. J. M. Janssen, p. 190
2. ^ cyclingnews.com - News for May 20, 1999: Willy Voet goes for the jugular in his book

Persondata
NAME	Oosterbosch, Bert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES
SHORT DESCRIPTION	Road bicycle racer
DATE OF BIRTH	1957-07-30
PLACE OF BIRTH	Eindhoven, Netherlands
DATE OF DEATH	1989-08-18
PLACE OF DEATH	Lekkerkerk, Netherlands