Theo Middelkamp

One-day races and Classics Theofiel Middelkamp (23 February 1914 – 2 May 2005) was a Dutch road cyclist.

However, in his first Tour, on 14 July 1936, he won the difficult mountain stage from Aix-les-Bains to Grenoble, which went over the Col du Galibier.

[1] During the Second World War, Middelkamp earned money by smuggling, but he was caught and spent several months in prison.

In 1947, Middelkamp became the first Dutch world champion on the road, in Reims, after having been close to that title in the previous year.

For a long time, he would not talk to journalists about his cycling years, until he spoke about his famous 1936 stage win in a television program in 2003.