Jan Raas

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Jan Raas

Raas in 1978
Personal information
Full name	Jan Raas
Born	(1952-11-08) 8 November 1952 (age 71) Heinkenszand, Netherlands
Team information
Current team	Retired
Discipline	Road
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional teams
1975–1976	TI–Raleigh
1977	Frisol–Thirion–Gazelle
1978–1983	TI–Raleigh–McGregor
1984–1985	Kwantum–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 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.