Hennie Stamsnijder

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**Hennie Stamsnijder**
Personal information
Full name	Hendrikus Johannes Maria Stamsnijder
Date of birth	July 21, 1954 (1954-07-21) (age 53)
Country	Netherlands
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Cyclo-Cross
Role	Rider
Professional team(s)
1980–1982 1983–1986 1987–1989	DAF trucks Willy Van Doorne PDM-Concorde
Major wins
World Cyclo Cross Championships 1981 4 wins Superprestige classification
Infobox last updated on:
February 20, 2008

Hendrikus (Hennie) Johannes Maria Stamsnijder (Enter, July 21 1954) is a Dutch former professional cyclo-cross and road racing cyclist.

Stamsnijder became Cyclo-cross world champion by the Military in 1975. In 1976 he also took part in the Olympic Games.^{[citation needed]} In 1979 he won the Essen cyclo cross race and the amateur Dutch national road race championships. In 1980 he turned professional riding for DAF Trucks where he finished third in the Cyclo-cross world championships. Stamsnijder achieved his greatest success in 1981 where in Tolosa in the Basque Country he became cyclo-cross world champion. On a muddy course he left the Belgian Roland Liboton and the Swiss champion Albert Zweifel behind him to take the title. Stamsnijder was the first Dutch world cyclo-cross champion and that year he won the Sportman of the year award. Stamsnijder rode the Tour de France twice in his carrier, in 1980 and 1981 however it was in cyclo-cross he achieved his greatest victories including four times winning the Superprestige classification in 1983, 1984, 1987 and 1989 with 14 wins in Superprestige races.^[1] In 1989 Stamsnijder ended his career when his son was very sick. Later he became the national coach of the Dutch cyclo-cross team. He is currently a manager of the sports marketing of Shimano. His son, Tom Stamsnijder, is currently a professional cyclist for the Team Gerolsteiner.