Niki Terpstra
Niki Terpstra (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈniki ˈtɛrpstraː]; born 18 May 1984) is a Dutch racing cyclist, who currently rides for UCI ProTeam Total Direct Énergie.[2] He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Mike Terpstra.[3] He is the third Dutch cyclist to have won both of the cobbled Monument spring classics, Paris-Roubaix and the Tour of Flanders, after Jan Raas and Hennie Kuiper.
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Career
Early life and career
Niki Terpstra was born on 18 May 1984 in Beverwijk in the Netherlands.
He was part of the silver medal winning team in the team pursuit in the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, together with Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris and Peter Schep. With a 4th place in the Three Days of De Panne followed by a 14th place at the 2008 Tour of Flanders, young Terpstra showed signs of considerable talent.
Between 2007 and 2010, Terpstra rode for the German Team Milram. In 2009 Terpstra won the 3rd stage in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, gaining the yellow leader jersey at the same time, keeping it for a day.[4]
Quick-Step (2011–2018)
2011–2014
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In 2011, Terpstra joined the Belgian UCI World Tour Quick-Step team.
In 2012, Terpstra took a prestigious victory at the Dwars door Vlaanderen, winning in solo fashion after being on the attack all day. He detached himself from the break on the Oude Kwaremont with Jelle Wallays of Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator. He dropped Wallays on the Paterberg and finished the race with an advantage of 47 seconds over Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel.[5]
In 2014 he won his first short stage race with the victory in the Tour of Qatar. Terpstra continued his good form in the classics, placing fifth in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, winning the Dwars door Vlaanderen for the second time in his career, and placing sixth in the Tour of Flanders. On 13 April 2014 he won the Paris–Roubaix race in solo fashion, after attacking from the leading group of 11 riders with 6 kilometres (3.7 miles) remaining.[6]
2015
In 2015, Terpstra defended his Tour of Qatar title, holding the race lead after winning the individual time trial on Stage 3.[7] At Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, Terpstra made the decisive breakaway of four riders with teammates Tom Boonen and Stijn Vandenbergh, along with Ian Stannard (Team Sky). After Stannard closed down a Boonen attack in the closing stages Terpstra tried to counterattack, but Vandenbergh closed the gap, allowing Stannard to attack with only Terpstra able to follow. Stannard went on to beat Terpstra in the sprint finish.[8] In March Terpstra had some success, first by getting the second position in the Ronde van Zeeland Seaports. He then got on the second step of the podium of a very windy Gent–Wevelgem, as he won the two-man sprint for second position after Luca Paolini had crossed the line solo.[9] In his next race, the Tour of Flanders, he broke away from the peloton with Alexander Kristoff 30 kilometres (19 miles) from the finish but could not beat Kristoff in the final sprint, completing the race in second place.[10] In June, he won the Dutch National Road Race Championships in a bunch sprint, surprising the pure sprinters.[11]
2016
In 2016, Terpstra won the Eneco Tour after a dramatic rain-swept final stage that saw former race leader Rohan Dennis (BMC Racing Team) crash out. The stage featured cobbles and bergs used in the Classics first saw Dennis lose time, and then drop out completely due to his injuries. Terpstra, who started the final stage in fifth place overall, formed part of a front group of three riders and finished second behind stage winner Edvald Boasson Hagen (Team Dimension Data).[12]
2018
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In 2018, Terpstra won E3 Harelbeke, soloing to the line after initially attacking on the Taaienberg with teammate Yves Lampaert with more than 70 kilometres (43 miles) remaining. Terpstra finished 20 seconds clear of an elite group, led home by his team-mate Philippe Gilbert, and he became the first Dutchman to win E3 Harelbeke since Steven de Jongh in 2003.[13] Terpstra won the Tour of Flanders with a late solo attack. After following an attack by Vincenzo Nibali (Bahrain–Merida) over the Kruisberg climb, Terpstra dropped the Italian soon after, then caught and quickly dispatched a trio of riders from an earlier breakaway on the final climb of the Oude Kwaremont. Terpstra remained clear over the remaining 25 kilometres (16 miles), finishing 12 seconds ahead of Trek–Segafredo's Mads Pedersen from the earlier breakaway, and by teammate and defending race-winner Gilbert who led the bunch home in third.[14] It was his second ‘Monument’ victory [15] and he became the first Dutch rider since Adri van der Poel in 1986 to win the Tour of Flanders.[16] The following week, Terpstra claimed third place at Paris–Roubaix, leading home a group 57 seconds behind winner Peter Sagan (Bora–Hansgrohe) and Silvan Dillier (AG2R La Mondiale).[17]
Direct Énergie (2019–present)
In 2019, Terpstra joined French team Direct Énergie.[18]
On 16 June 2020, Terpstra was involved in a crash in the Netherlands. While motor-pacing, he was forced to avoid hitting a pack of geese at high speed, hitting a rock and falling to the ground.[19] He was airlifted to hospital and will likely miss the 2020 Tour de France as a result.[20]
Major results
Track
- 2004
- 1st
- 2005
- National Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 2nd
- 2006
- National Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 2007
- National Championships
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st
- 2011
- 2nd
- 2013
- 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Iljo Keisse)
- 2014
- 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Iljo Keisse)
- 1st Six Days of Amsterdam (with Yoeri Havik)
- 2015
- 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Iljo Keisse)
- 2016
- 3rd Six Days of Rotterdam (with Yoeri Havik)
- 2019
- 1st Six Days of Rotterdam (with Thomas Boudat)
Road
- 2004
- 1st Stage 2 Ronde van Midden-Brabant
- 1st GP Wielerrevue
- 2005
- 1st Omloop der Kempen
- 2006
- 1st Ronde van Midden-Nederland
- 1st Stage 4 Tour of Belgium
- 1st Stage 6 Tour de Normandie
- 1st Stage 2 OZ Wielerweekend
- 2nd Ronde van Overijssel
- 2007
- 1st
- 3rd Hel van het Mergelland
- 2008
- 3rd Overall Bayern–Rundfahrt
- 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 5th Dutch Food Valley Classic
- 2009
- 1st Ridderronde Maastricht
- 1st Stage 3 Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré
- 2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 1st Prologue
- 9th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2010
- 1st
- 1st Sparkassen Giro Bochum
- 3rd Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 6th Overall Tour of Oman
- 2011
- 2nd Overall Ster ZLM Toer
- 6th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 6th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 10th Overall Tour of Beijing
- 2012
- 1st
- National Road Championships
- 1st
- 3rd Time trial
- 1st
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 1st Amstel Curaçao Race
- 3rd Overall Eneco Tour
- 3rd Paris–Tours
- 5th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 5th Paris–Roubaix
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 2013
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Tirreno–Adriatico
- National Road Championships
- 2nd Time trial
- 5th Road race
- 3rd Overall Driedaagse van West–Vlaanderen
- 3rd Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 6th Grand Prix Cycliste de Québec
- 9th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Paris–Tours
- 2014
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1
- 1st Paris–Roubaix
- 1st Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 1st Amstel Curaçao Race
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2nd E3 Harelbeke
- 3rd
- 4th Overall Three Days of De Panne
- 5th Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 6th Tour of Flanders
- 9th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 2015
- 1st
- 1st
- 1st Stage 3 (ITT)
- 1st
- 1st Stage 1
- 2nd
- 2nd Tour of Flanders
- 2nd Omloop Het Nieuwsblad
- 2nd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
- 2nd Gent–Wevelgem
- 8th Road race, European Games
- 2016
- UCI Road World Championships
- 9th Road race
- 1st
- 1st Le Samyn
- 1st Dwars door het Hageland
- 10th Overall Tour of Belgium
- 10th Tour of Flanders
- 2017
- 3rd Tour of Flanders
- 3rd Paris–Tours
- 4th Gent–Wevelgem
- 2018
- 1st
- 1st Tour of Flanders
- 1st E3 Harelbeke
- 1st Le Samyn
- 1st Stage 1 (TTT) Adriatica Ionica Race
- 2nd Time trial, National Road Championships
- 2nd Paris–Tours
- 3rd Paris–Roubaix
- 9th Dwars door Vlaanderen
- 9th Overall BinckBank Tour
- 2019
- 2nd Dwars door het Hageland
- 3rd Overall Tour Poitou-Charentes en Nouvelle-Aquitaine
- 3rd Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne
- 3rd Le Samyn
- 3rd Circuit de Wallonie
- 5th Time trial, National Road Championships
- 7th Antwerp Port Epic
- 10th Chrono des Nations
- 10th Tour de Vendée
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
| Grand Tour | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
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— | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
|
— | 136 | 152 | DNF | 134 | — | 149 | 94 | — | — | — | 119 | DNF |
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142 | — | — | 95 | — | 127 | — | — | DNF | 139 | 130 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
|---|---|
| DNF | Did not finish |
Monuments results timeline
| Monuments results timeline | ||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monument | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Milan–San Remo | — | 143 | 83 | 41 | 38 | 45 | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | 56 | — |
| Tour of Flanders | — | 14 | OTL | 45 | — | 6 | 113 | 6 | 2 | 10 | 3 | 1 | DNF | — |
| Paris–Roubaix | 74 | 103 | 16 | DNF | — | 5 | 3 | 1 | 15 | DNF | DNF | 3 | — | — |
| Liège–Bastogne–Liège | NQ | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Giro di Lombardia | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Classic | 2007 | 2008 | 2009 | 2010 | 2011 | 2012 | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
| Omloop Het Nieuwsblad | DNF | 86 | 9 | 87 | 6 | — | 99 | 5 | 2 | 30 | 51 | 52 | 20 | 33 |
| Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne | 54 | — | — | DNF | — | — | — | DNF | — | 56 | — | 54 | 3 | 40 |
| Strade Bianche | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | 55 | — | — | — | — | |
| E3 Harelbeke | 56 | 33 | 15 | — | 14 | 25 | DNF | 2 | 14 | 13 | 19 | 1 | 15 | |
| Gent–Wevelgem | — | — | DNF | OTL | — | — | — | — | 2 | 21 | 4 | 39 | 23 | |
| Dwars door Vlaanderen | — | 12 | 33 | 3 | 30 | 1 | 11 | 1 | 18 | 35 | 25 | 9 | 60 | |
| Scheldeprijs | 81 | — | — | 125 | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | — | |
| Amstel Gold Race | DNF | 113 | DNF | DNF | — | 28 | DNF | — | — | — | — | DNF | — | |
| Paris–Tours | 86 | — | 74 | 91 | — | 3 | 10 | — | 30 | — | 3 | 2 | ||
See also
References
- "Direct Énergie". Directvelo (in French). Association Le Peloton. Retrieved 14 January 2019.
- "Total Direct Énergie". UCI.org. Union Cycliste Internationale. Archived from the original on 12 January 2020. Retrieved 12 January 2020.
- "Niki Terpstra dertiende in GP Samyn" [Niki Terpstra thirteenth in GP Samyn]. RTV N-H (in Dutch). 4 March 2015. Retrieved 4 April 2015.
- "Stage 3 Tournus -> Saint-Étienne 182km". cycling news.com. 9 June 2009. Archived from the original on 21 June 2009. Retrieved 17 June 2009.
- Brecht Decaluwé (21 March 2012). "Terpstra victorious at Dwars door Vlaanderen". Cycling News. Future Publishing Limited. Retrieved 18 December 2012.
- "Niki Terpstra solos to triumph on the Roubaix velodrome". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 13 April 2014. Retrieved 11 September 2014.
- "Terpstra defends Tour of Qatar title". VeloNews. Competitor Group, Inc. 13 February 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- "Stannard sees off Quickstep to win incredible Omloop Het Nieuwsblad". Cyclingnews.com. Future plc. 28 February 2015. Retrieved 30 March 2015.
- Nigel Wynn (29 March 2015). "Luca Paolini wins memorable edition of Ghent-Wevelgem". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 29 March 2015.
- Nigel Wynn (5 April 2015). "Alexander Kristoff wins Tour of Flanders". Cycling Weekly. IPC Media Sports & Leisure network. Retrieved 5 April 2015.
- Axelgaard, Emil (28 June 2015). "Terpstra takes Dutch road race title in a bunch sprint". Cycling Quotes. CyclingQuotes.com 2013. Retrieved 28 June 2015.
- http://www.cyclingweekly.com/news/racing/niki-terpstra-wins-eneco-tour-dramatic-final-stage-286449
- O'Shea, Sadhbh (23 March 2018). "Terpstra wins E3 Harelbeke". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. Retrieved 23 March 2018.
- "Niki Terpstra wins 2018 Tour of Flanders". Cyclingnews.com. Immediate Media Company. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- https://www.cyclingweekly/news/latest-news/niki-terpstra-leaves-rivals-behind-tour-of-flanders-win-375011%3Fsource%3Ddam
- "Terpstra eerste Nederlandse winnaar sinds 1986" [Terpstra first Dutch winner since 1986]. De Telegraaf (in Dutch). Telegraaf Media Groep. 1 April 2018. Retrieved 1 April 2018.
- Robertshaw, Henry (8 April 2018). "Peter Sagan takes spectacular Paris-Roubaix victory after huge 54km attack". Cycling Weekly. Time Inc. UK. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 8 April 2018.
- "Mercato – Niki Terpstra intègre Direct Energie". Team Direct Energie Pro Cycling (in French). 16 August 2018. Retrieved 17 August 2018.
- "Niki Terpstra in intensive care following training crash". BBC Sport. Retrieved 20 June 2020.
- "Terpstra out for three months after serious motor pacing crash". cyclingnews.com. 17 June 2020. Retrieved 18 June 2020.
External links
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- Niki Terpstra at ProCyclingStats
| Preceded by Koos Moerenhout Pim Ligthart Sebastian Langeveld |
Dutch National Road Race Champion 2010 2012 2015 |
Succeeded by Pim Ligthart Johnny Hoogerland Dylan Groenewegen |
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Winner of Paris–Roubaix 2014 |
Succeeded by John Degenkolb |
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