Ramon Sinkeldam
| File:Ramon Sinkeldam.jpg Sinkeldam in 2016 | |||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Ramon Sinkeldam | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 9 February 1989[1] Wormer, the Netherlands | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Weight | 75 kg (165 lb; 11 st 11 lb) | ||||||||||||||
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| Current team | Retired | ||||||||||||||
| Discipline | Road | ||||||||||||||
| Role | Rider | ||||||||||||||
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| Amateur team | |||||||||||||||
| 2007–2011 | Rabobank Continental Team | ||||||||||||||
| Professional teams | |||||||||||||||
| 2012–2017 | Project 1t4i[2] | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2022 | FDJ[3][4][5] | ||||||||||||||
| 2023–2024 | Alpecin–Deceuninck[6] | ||||||||||||||
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Ramon Sinkeldam (born 9 February 1989) is a Dutch former cyclist, who competed as a professional from 2012 to 2024.
Career
[edit | edit source]Amateur career
[edit | edit source]Born in Wormer, Sinkeldam rode for the Rabobank Continental Team for his entire amateur career, between 2007 and 2011. During this time, he won the Paris–Roubaix Espoirs race in 2011, as well as winning the 2011 Ronde van Limburg and the national under-23 road race championships in 2011, having finished second in the two previous years. In his youth Sinkeldam was also active in mountain biking and in cyclocross.
Professional career
[edit | edit source]Sinkeldam turned professional for the 2012 season, joining the Project 1t4i team. He achieved his first professional victories with the team in October 2012, winning two stages at the Tour of Hainan in China. He finished the race sixth overall. He was named in the start list for the 2015 Tour de France.[7] He earned no wins in 2013, but did place 3rd overall at 2.HC race Four Days of Dunkirk. In 2014, Sinkeldam won the second stage of the World Ports Classic and finished in 2nd overall. 2015 was his most successful season yet, as he won one day events Velothon Berlin and Binche–Chimay–Binche. Sinkeldam was also 2nd in the Dutch National Road Race Championships, behind Niki Terpstra.
On 23 January 2016, he was one of the six members of the Team Giant–Alpecin who were hit by a motorist who drove into on-coming traffic while they were training in Spain. All riders were in stable condition.[8]
In May 2019, he was named in the startlist for the 2019 Giro d'Italia.[9]
Major results
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- 2006
- 3rd Road race, National Junior Road Championships
- 2009
- 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 2010
- 2nd Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 9th Münsterland Giro
- 2011
- 1st File:MaillotHolanda.PNG Road race, National Under-23 Road Championships
- 1st Paris–Roubaix Espoirs
- 1st Ronde van Limburg
- 5th Overall Olympia's Tour
- 8th Overall Volta ao Alentejo
- 2012 (2 pro wins)
- 6th Overall Tour of Hainan
- 1st Stages 5 & 8
- 2013
- 2nd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
- 3rd Overall Four Days of Dunkirk
- 2014 (1)
- 2nd Overall World Ports Classic
- 1st File:Jersey white.svg Young rider classification
- 1st Stage 2
- 2nd Overall Tour de Picardie
- 2nd Ronde van Zeeland Seaports
- 6th Grand Prix Impanis-Van Petegem
- 2015 (2)
- 1st Velothon Berlin
- 1st Binche–Chimay–Binche
- 2nd Road race, National Road Championships
- 8th Vattenfall Cyclassics
- 2017 (1)
- 1st File:MaillotHolanda.PNG Road race, National Road Championships
- 9th Scheldeprijs
- 2018 (1)
- 1st Paris–Chauny
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
- 2019
- 1st File:European champion jersey 2016.svg Team relay, UEC European Road Championships
- 2022
- 6th Tour de Vendée
- 2024
- 3rd Road race, National Road Championships
Grand Tour general classification results timeline
[edit | edit source]| Grand Tour | 2013 | 2014 | 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | 2023 |
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| A pink jersey Giro d'Italia | — | — | — | — | — | — | 133 | DNF | — | 132 | DNF |
| A yellow jersey Tour de France | — | — | DNF | 143 | 148 | 134 | — | — | — | — | DNF |
| A red jersey Vuelta a España | DNF | 136 | — | — | — | — | — | — | 127 | — | — |
| — | Did not compete |
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| DNF | Did not finish |
| IP | In progress |
References
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External links
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