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Bart Zoet

Dutch cyclist (1942–1992)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ794558 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hubertus Balthazar "Bart" Zoet (20 October 1942 – 13 May 1992) was a Dutch cyclist who was active between 1961 and 1969. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics and won the gold medal in the 100 km team time trial, alongside Gerben Karstens, Evert Dolman, and Jan Pieterse; he finished 20th in the individual road race. Next year he won the Grote 1-MeiPrijs.

Zoet died of a heart attack, which was induced by depression, alcoholism and hereditary heart disease.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Bart Zoet” is dutch cyclist (1942–1992). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Bart, Zoet and Dutch, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1942, 1992, 1961, 1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1942-10-20. For this dossier, Bart, Zoet and Dutch is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q794558. VIAF identifies the subject as 280342286. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1942, 1992, 1961 and 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bart Zoet” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.