Dorotheus Magdalenus "Dorus" Nijland (26 February 1880 – 13 December 1968) was a Dutch track and road racing cyclist.

He finished eleven times 2nd at the Dutch National Track Championships.

As second places became kind of an obsession during his career, he got the nickname “pechkampioen” (translated: bad luck champion).

In the semi-final they started too fast and Nijland fell and so they finished fourth.

[4] At the 1910 UCI Track Cycling World Championships he would have won his heat of Frenchman Paul Texier (who won the bronze medal), but the officials named Texier as the winner.