Léon Hendrik Jan van Bon (born 28 January 1972) is a retired road racing cyclist from the Netherlands, who won the silver medal in the men's points race at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. He won his first major race at the professionals in 1998, winning the HEW Cyclassics. In 2001 he claimed the overall-victory in the Ronde van Nederland. Van Bon retired in 2013.

Major results

1988

U17 Pursuit Champion

U17 Sprint Champion

1989

U19 Pursuit Champion

U19 Points Race Champion

U19 Sprint Champion

1990

U19 Points Race Champion

U19 Sprint Champion

World U19 Points Race Championship

1991

Amateur Points Race Champion

2nd, National Time Trial Championship

2nd, National Amateur Pursuit Championship

1992

Madison Champion

Amateur Points Race Champion

2nd, Olympic Games, Points Race

2nd, National Amateur Pursuit Championship

2nd, Overall, Olympia's Tour

Winner Prologue

1993

1st, Stages 1 & 7, Tour de l'Avenir

1994

1st, Tour de la Haute-Sambre

2nd, National Points Race Championship

1995

1st, Stage 7, DuPont Tour

3rd, Overall, PostGirot Open

1996

1st, Overall, Wien-Rabenstein-Gresten-Wien

1st, Stage 4, DuPont Tour

1st, Stage 1, Tirreno–Adriatico

1997

1st, Omloop der Vlaamse Ardennen

1st, Amsterdam RAI Derny Race

1st, Stage 18, Vuelta a España

UCI Road World Championships, Road race

9th, Paris–Tours

1998

1st, HEW Cyclassics

1st, Stage 9, Tour de France

2nd, World Cup

3rd, National Road Race Championship

4th, Paris–Roubaix

8th, Clásica de San Sebastián

1999

1st, Stage 1, Prudential Tour

6th, Milan–San Remo

6th, Paris–Roubaix

6th, Amstel Gold Race

8th, Paris–Tours

2000

Dutch National Road Race Championship

1st, Ronde van Midden-Zeeland

1st, Stage 6, Tour de France

7th, Tour of Flanders

Peperbus Profspektakel

2001

1st, Overall, Ronde van Nederland

1st, First Union Invitational

2nd, Gent–Wevelgem

2002

1st, Stage 4, Tour de Suisse

2003

1st, Veenendaal–Veenendaal

1st, Stage 3, Deutschland Tour

2004

1st, Stage 3, Paris–Nice

1st, Stage 5, Ronde van Nederland

4th, Tour of Flanders

7th, Paris–Roubaix

10th, World Cup

2005

National Road Race Championships

6th, Paris–Roubaix

8th, Tour of Flanders

2007

1st, Nokere Koerse

2012

3rd National Track Championships, Madison (with Geert Jan Jonkman)

Léon van Bon

See also

List of Dutch Olympic cyclists

References

External links

Dutch Olympic Committee

1972 births

Living people

People from Lingewaal

Dutch male cyclists

Cyclists at the 1992 Summer Olympics

Cyclists at the 2000 Summer Olympics

Olympic cyclists for the Netherlands

Olympic silver medalists for the Netherlands

Dutch Tour de France stage winners

Dutch Vuelta a España stage winners

Olympic medalists in cycling

Tour de Suisse stage winners

UCI Road World Championships cyclists for the Netherlands

Cyclists from Gelderland

Medalists at the 1992 Summer Olympics

20th-century Dutch people

21st-century Dutch people

Léon van Bon