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Frits van Bindsbergen

Dutch bicycle racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 3, 2026
Entity authorityQ2739738 ↗
Source-derived summary

Frits van Bindsbergen (born 18 August 1960 in Babberich) is a road cyclist from Netherlands. He became world champion in the team time trial at the 1982 UCI Road World Championships together with Maarten Ducrot, Gerrit Solleveld and Gerard Schipper. He won a stage in the Olympia's Tour in 1982.

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“Frits van Bindsbergen” enters the record as dutch bicycle racer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Frits, Bindsbergen and Dutch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-08-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Frits, Bindsbergen and Dutch.
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Why this record matters

“Frits van Bindsbergen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Frits, Bindsbergen and Dutch provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 May 3, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2739738. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Frits van Bindsbergen” 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.