Jan Krekels

Jan Jozef Alfons Franciscus Krekels (born 26 August 1947) is a retired cyclist from the Netherlands.

He became Olympic champion in the 100 km team time trial in 1968 with Joop Zoetemelk, René Pijnen and Fedor den Hertog; at the same Games he came in 11th in the road race.

[1] He also won the 19th stage of the Tour de France in 1971 and the prologue of Paris–Nice in 1970.

[2] Krekels won three four major races of 1968, including the Tour of Austria, to be selected to the 1968 Olympic team.

He rode instead for a small Dutch team and his career fizzled out.