Jan Raas

Jan Raas
Raas in 1978
Personal information
Full nameJan Raas
Born (1952-11-08) 8 November 1952 (age 72)
Heinkenszand, Netherlands
Team information
Current teamRetired
DisciplineRoad
RoleRider
Rider typeClassics specialist
Professional teams
1975–1976TI–Raleigh
1977Frisol–Thirion–Gazelle
1978–1983TI–Raleigh–McGregor
1984–1985Kwantum–Decosol–Yoko
Major wins
Grand Tours
Tour de France
10 individual stages (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982, 1984)

Stage races

Étoile de Bessèges (1981)
Ronde van Nederland (1979)

One-day races and Classics

National Road Race Championship (1976, 1983, 1984)
Milan–San Remo (1977)
Amstel Gold Race (1977, 1978, 1979, 1980, 1982)
Paris–Brussels (1978)
Paris–Tours (1978, 1981)
E3 Prijs Vlaanderen (1979, 1980, 1981)
Tour of Flanders (1979, 1983)
Kuurne–Brussels–Kuurne (1980, 1983)
Omloop Het Volk (1981)
Gent–Wevelgem (1981)
Paris–Roubaix (1982)
Medal record
Representing the  Netherlands
Men's road bicycle racing
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1979 Valkenburg Road race

Jan Raas (born 8 November 1952) is a Dutch former professional cyclist whose 115 wins include the 1979 World Road Race Championship in Valkenburg, he also won the Tour of Flanders in 1979 and 1983, Paris–Roubaix in 1982 and Milan–San Remo in 1977. He won ten stages in the Tour de France. In six starts, Raas won the Amstel Gold Race five times.[1] In his entire career he competed in 23 of the highly contested "Monument" Races and he finished on the podium in almost half of them: 1st place four times and 3rd place six times.

Raas was a tactician and clever sprinter. He struggled on the long steep climbs but excelled on the short climbs characteristic of the northern classics.

  1. ^ John Wilcockson (2010-04-16) Amstel Gold Race preview: Horner and Hesjedal are North America’s best chance Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine. Velonews.competitor.com. Retrieved on 2013-01-16.