Niki Terpstra

Niki Terpstra

Terpstra at the 2015 Grand Prix Pino Cerami.
Personal information
Full name	Niki Terpstra
Born	(1984-05-18) 18 May 1984 Beverwijk, the Netherlands
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Weight	74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Team information
Current team	Etixx–Quick-Step
Discipline	Road and track
Role	Rider
Rider type	Classics specialist
Professional team(s)
2003–2004	Bert Story-Piels
2005	AXA
2006	Ubbink-Syntec
2007–2010	Team Milram
2011–	Quick-Step
Major wins
Stage races Tour of Qatar (2014, 2015) Tour de Wallonie (2015) Eneco Tour (2016) Single-day races and Classics World Team Time Trial Championships (2012, 2013, 2016) National Road Race Championships (2010, 2012, 2015) Paris–Roubaix (2014) Dwars door Vlaanderen (2012, 2014)
Medal record Road bicycle racing Representing Etixx–Quick-Step World Championships 2012 Valkenburg Team Time Trial 2013 Florence Team Time Trial 2016 Doha Team Time Trial 2015 Richmond Team Time Trial 2014 Ponferrada Team Time Trial Track cycling Representing  Netherlands UCI Track Cycling World Championships 2005 Los Angeles Team Pursuit
Infobox last updated on 9 October 2016

Niki Terpstra (Dutch pronunciation: [ˈniki ˈtɛrpstraː]; born 18 May 1984) is a Dutch racing cyclist with UCI ProTeam Etixx–Quick-Step.^[1] He is the brother of fellow racing cyclist Mike Terpstra.^[2]

Career

Niki Terpstra was born on 18 May 1984 in Beverwijk in the Netherlands. He was part of the silver medal winning team in the team pursuit in the 2005 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, together with Levi Heimans, Jens Mouris and Peter Schep. With a 4th place in the Three Days of de Panne followed by a 14th place at the 2008 Tour of Flanders, young Terpstra showed signs of considerable talent. In 2009 Terpstra won the 3rd stage in the Critérium du Dauphiné Libéré, gaining the yellow leader jersey at the same time, keeping it for a day.^[3]

In 2012, Terpstra took a prestigious victory at the Dwars door Vlaanderen, winning in solo fashion after being on the attack all day. He detached himself from the break on the Oude Kwaremont with Jelle Wallays of Topsport Vlaanderen–Mercator. He dropped Wallays on the Paterberg and finished the race with an advantage of 47 seconds over Frenchman Sylvain Chavanel.^[4]

Terpstra crossing the line to win the 2014 Paris-Roubaix

In 2014 he won his first short stage race with the victory in the Tour of Qatar. Terpstra continued his good form in the classics, placing fifth in Omloop Het Nieuwsblad, winning the Dwars door Vlaanderen for the second time in his career, and placing sixth in the Tour of Flanders. On 13 April 2014 he won the Paris–Roubaix race in solo fashion, after attacking from the leading group of 11 riders with 6 km (3.7 mi) remaining.^[5]

In 2015, Terpstra defended his Tour of Qatar title, holding the race lead after winning the individual time trial on Stage 3.^[6] At the Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Terpstra made the decisive breakaway of four riders with teammates Tom Boonen and Stijn Vandenbergh, along with Ian Stannard (Team Sky). After Stannard closed down a Boonen attack in the closing stages Terpstra tried to counterattack, but Vandenbergh closed the gap, allowing Stannard to attack with only Terpstra able to follow. Stannard went on to beat Terpstra in the sprint finish.^[7] In March Terpstra had some success, first by getting the second position in the Ronde van Zeeland Seaports. He then got on the second step of the podium of a very windy Gent–Wevelgem, as he won the two-man sprint for second position after Luca Paolini had crossed the line solo.^[8] In his next race, the Tour of Flanders, he broke away from the peloton with Alexander Kristoff 30 kilometers from the finish but couldn't beat Kristoff in the final sprint, completing the race in second place.^[9] In June, he won the National Road Race Championships in a bunch sprint, surprising the pure sprinters.^[10]

Career achievements

Major results

Road

Track

Grand Tour general classification results timeline

Grand Tour	2016
Giro	—
Tour	—
Vuelta	139

WD = Withdrew; In Progress = IP

Monuments Results Timeline

DNF = Did not finish; - = Did not compete

See also

• List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Niki Terpstra.

• Palmares at Cycling Base
• Niki Terpstra profile at Cycling Archives
• Niki Terpstra profile at ProCyclingStats

UCI Road World Champions – Men's team time trial
Trade teams	2012: Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (Boonen, Chavanel, Martin, Terpstra, Vandewalle, Velits) 2013: Omega Pharma–Quick-Step (Chavanel, Kwiatkowski, Martin, Terpstra, Vandewalle, Velits) 2014: BMC Racing Team (Dennis, Dillier, Oss, Quinziato, van Garderen, Velits) 2015: BMC Racing Team (Dennis, Dillier, Küng, Oss, Phinney, Quinziato) 2016: Etixx–Quick-Step (Jungels, Kittel, Lampaert, Martin, Terpstra, Vermote)